Common Name: Wild Geranium

Latin Name: Geranium maculatum

Height: 1 foot

Duration: Perennial

Bloom Color: Purple

Bloom Time: April - July

Water Use: Medium, Medium-Dry

Soil: Loam, Sand

Light Requirement: Full, Partial, Shade

Spreads via: Seed; rhizomes

Host Plant: Some moths species, leaf-mining larvae Geranium Aphid and other bugs  

Pollinators: Bumblebees, mason bees, cuckoo bees, long-horned bees, Halictid bees, Andrenid bees and other bees. Andrena distans is a specialist pollinator of Wild Geranium.

Other Information:   Each seed is packed into a pod and the pods are attached to a structure that resembles a crane’s bill, thus another common name, Crane’s Bill.  As the bill dries, it catapults the seeds away from the parent plant.