Geranium maculatum

Most common and largest of all native geraniums, this lavender wildflower blooms May through July 

Geranium maculatum wood geranium

Plant grows in the wild/spontaneouslyPlant is native to PA

This beautiful wildflower can be found from the middle of spring and well into summer in the forest and open woodlands.  The flower has five green sepals, five pink/purplish petals, five parts to the pistil in the center and ten stamens. Once the plant finishes flowering, the formed seed pods look like the beak of a bird.  It was thought to resemble the beak of a crane, and such came the common name Crane's bill and the Latin name Geranium, root of which 'geranos' means Crane's bill.

Grows in forest, meadows, and fields.

Present throughout the state.

Wetland codes
EMP: FACU
NCNE: FACU



Flowers May to July.

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Geranium maculatum wood geranium

Plant grows in the wild/spontaneouslyPlant is native to PA
Geranium maculatum gallery
Plant Life-Form
perennial forb
Common Names
wood geranium cranesbill wild geranium