| Description | A vigorous rhizomatous plant with shell pink flowers. |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
| Sunlight | full sun or light shade |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | five petals and are shell pink or white (G. dalamaticum album). |
| Fruit | distinctive beaked seed capsules, hence the common name of crane’s bill (geranium in Greek means crane |
| Leaves | mostly three lobes and lobes divided into 5-6 wedge shaped divisions, glossy |
| Stems | rhizomatous stem |
| Dimensions | 6 inches tall, spreading |
| Propagation | division of the rhizomes |
| Native Site | Native to southwest Yugoslavia and Albania. |
| Cultivar Origin | First introduced in 1947 by Walter Ingwersen and commercially introduced in 1956. |
| Author's Notes | There is a nice planting of this Geranium at the Boerner Botanical Gardens by a set of stairs going down to another level. It is growing in front of and underneath a Firebird Ornamental Crabapple. I enjoy the sheet of foliage and mass of booms each year. |
| Notes & Reference | #29-Hardy Geraniums (Peter F. Yeo), #231- The Gardeners Guide to Growing Hardy Geraniums (Trevor Bath, Joy Jones) |
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