Wild Geranium

Geranium maculatum - Wild Geranium

This is a woodland perennial that grows well in most soil types. It blooms in Mid-Spring.

Geranium maculatum, the spotted geranium, wood geranium, or wild geranium is a forest enduring plant local to eastern North America, from southern Manitoba and southwestern Quebec south to Alabama and Georgia and west to Oklahoma and South Dakota.

Wild geranium beautiful blooms can vary from pink to purple.

This often depends on the location and soil type they are planted in. Simple yet unique your garden will welcome the newcomer. It develops in dry to wet woods. It is a lasting herbaceous plant extending to 60 cm tall, delivering upright generally unbranched stems and blooms in spring to ahead of schedule summer. The leaves are palmately lobed with five or seven profoundly cut projections, 10–12.5 cm expansive, with a petiole up to 30 cm long emerging from the rootstock. They grow separate into three or five divisions, each of which is again parted and toothed. The blooms are 2.5–4 cm width, with five rose-purple, pale or violet-purple (once in a while white) petals and ten stamens; they show up from April to June in free groups of two to five at the highest point of the stems. The organic product case, which springs open when ready, comprises of five cells each containing one seed joined to a long snout like section 2–3 cm long (taking after a crane's bill) delivered from the focal point of the old blossom.

The Wild Geranium rhizome is long, and 5 to 10 cm thick, with various branches.

The rhizomes are secured with scars, demonstrating the remaining parts of stems of earlier years development. At the point when they dry, it has a to some degree purplish shading inside. Hardy in zones 3-8.

 Wild Geranium ship as bare root rhizomes.