Two bright pink flowers with five petals are highllighted agains green foliage and flower buds. There are darker pink lines on the petals that end at the yellow centers.

Two bright pink flowers with five petals are highlighted among green palmate leaves and flower buds.

Two bees sleep curled around the center of a pink flower with five petals.

Two pink flowers with five petals are highlighted against green palmate leaves on the forest floor with decaying leaves and a fern in the background.

Many pink, five petaled medium size flowers with spring green palmate leaves in the background.

Pink flowers with five petals stand out against green foliage and small sticks.

Many pink five petaled flowers are among palmate green leaves and other woodland plants on the forest floor.

Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)

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The pink flowers of Wild Geranium will stand out among other woodland plants. It flowers in spring and the leaves stick around most of the growing season. The leaves are palmately (like a hand) lobed with deep veins and the flowers have radiating veins that serve as nectar guides to bees and other pollinators. Geranium offers both nectar and pollen for hungry insects.

After pollination, the flower fades away and “five slender carpels of the fruits curl upward and backward to fling the seeds away from the mother plant” (photo coming soon!) quoted from Illinois Wildflowers.

Geranium maculatum has a specialist pollinator bee called Andrena distans. Andrena distans is a miner bee. The bees sleeping on a geranium flower in the third photo might be this species. I have not had it verified. There are other plants in the Geranium genus that host this bee as well.

This plant can thrive in shade, part shade, or full sun as long as it is kept moist in rich soil. Wild Geranium is a long lived plant and can serve as a ground cover.

The range for Geranium maculatum is mostly in the southern 2/3 of the lower peninsula although some of the upper peninsula records appear to be native, rather than cultivated escapes.

Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)

Michigan Flora reference page for state distribution: Wild Geranium

height: 12 inches

bloom time: April-June

soil: medium, rich

sun: full, partial, shade

plant spacing: 12”

flower: pink

life cycle: perennial

family: Geraniaceae

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2.5" pot quart bare root

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The pink flowers of Wild Geranium will stand out among other woodland plants. It flowers in spring and the leaves stick around most of the growing season. The leaves are palmately (like a hand) lobed with deep veins and the flowers have radiating veins that serve as nectar guides to bees and other pollinators. Geranium offers both nectar and pollen for hungry insects.

After pollination, the flower fades away and “five slender carpels of the fruits curl upward and backward to fling the seeds away from the mother plant” (photo coming soon!) quoted from Illinois Wildflowers.

Geranium maculatum has a specialist pollinator bee called Andrena distans. Andrena distans is a miner bee. The bees sleeping on a geranium flower in the third photo might be this species. I have not had it verified. There are other plants in the Geranium genus that host this bee as well.

This plant can thrive in shade, part shade, or full sun as long as it is kept moist in rich soil. Wild Geranium is a long lived plant and can serve as a ground cover.

The range for Geranium maculatum is mostly in the southern 2/3 of the lower peninsula although some of the upper peninsula records appear to be native, rather than cultivated escapes.

Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)

Michigan Flora reference page for state distribution: Wild Geranium

height: 12 inches

bloom time: April-June

soil: medium, rich

sun: full, partial, shade

plant spacing: 12”

flower: pink

life cycle: perennial

family: Geraniaceae

The pink flowers of Wild Geranium will stand out among other woodland plants. It flowers in spring and the leaves stick around most of the growing season. The leaves are palmately (like a hand) lobed with deep veins and the flowers have radiating veins that serve as nectar guides to bees and other pollinators. Geranium offers both nectar and pollen for hungry insects.

After pollination, the flower fades away and “five slender carpels of the fruits curl upward and backward to fling the seeds away from the mother plant” (photo coming soon!) quoted from Illinois Wildflowers.

Geranium maculatum has a specialist pollinator bee called Andrena distans. Andrena distans is a miner bee. The bees sleeping on a geranium flower in the third photo might be this species. I have not had it verified. There are other plants in the Geranium genus that host this bee as well.

This plant can thrive in shade, part shade, or full sun as long as it is kept moist in rich soil. Wild Geranium is a long lived plant and can serve as a ground cover.

The range for Geranium maculatum is mostly in the southern 2/3 of the lower peninsula although some of the upper peninsula records appear to be native, rather than cultivated escapes.

Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)

Michigan Flora reference page for state distribution: Wild Geranium

height: 12 inches

bloom time: April-June

soil: medium, rich

sun: full, partial, shade

plant spacing: 12”

flower: pink

life cycle: perennial

family: Geraniaceae

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Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)

After pollination, the flower fades away and “five slender carpels of the fruits curl upward and backward to fling the seeds away from the mother plant” (photo coming soon!) quoted from Illinois Wildflowers.

Geranium maculatum has a specialist pollinator bee called Andrena distans. Andrena distans is a miner bee. The bees sleeping on a geranium flower in the third photo might be this species. I have not had it verified. There are other plants in the Geranium genus that host this bee as well.

This plant can thrive in shade, part shade, or full sun as long as it is kept moist in rich soil. Wild Geranium is a long lived plant and can serve as a ground cover.

The range for Geranium maculatum is mostly in the southern 2/3 of the lower peninsula although some of the upper peninsula records appear to be native, rather than cultivated escapes.

After pollination, the flower fades away and “five slender carpels of the fruits curl upward and backward to fling the seeds away from the mother plant” (photo coming soon!) quoted from Illinois Wildflowers.

Geranium maculatum has a specialist pollinator bee called Andrena distans. Andrena distans is a miner bee. The bees sleeping on a geranium flower in the third photo might be this species. I have not had it verified. There are other plants in the Geranium genus that host this bee as well.

This plant can thrive in shade, part shade, or full sun as long as it is kept moist in rich soil. Wild Geranium is a long lived plant and can serve as a ground cover.

The range for Geranium maculatum is mostly in the southern 2/3 of the lower peninsula although some of the upper peninsula records appear to be native, rather than cultivated escapes.

After pollination, the flower fades away and “five slender carpels of the fruits curl upward and backward to fling the seeds away from the mother plant” (photo coming soon!) quoted from Illinois Wildflowers.

Geranium maculatum has a specialist pollinator bee called Andrena distans. Andrena distans is a miner bee. The bees sleeping on a geranium flower in the third photo might be this species. I have not had it verified. There are other plants in the Geranium genus that host this bee as well.

This plant can thrive in shade, part shade, or full sun as long as it is kept moist in rich soil. Wild Geranium is a long lived plant and can serve as a ground cover.

The range for Geranium maculatum is mostly in the southern 2/3 of the lower peninsula although some of the upper peninsula records appear to be native, rather than cultivated escapes.

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