Geranium dissectum (Cut-leaved crane's-bill)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Geranium dissectum, photographed by Daniel Cahen — fig. a Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205525665

Geranium dissectum, photographed by Erin Springinotic — fig. b Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205287018

Geranium dissectum, photographed by Andrew Skotnicki — fig. c Andrew Skotnicki, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205523826

Geranium dissectum, photographed by Rachel Webster — fig. e Rachel Webster, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203873861

Geranium dissectum, photographed by Mathew Robinson — fig. f Mathew Robinson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202916586

Geranium dissectum, photographed by Sheelagh Halsey — fig. g Sheelagh Halsey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202942069

Geranium dissectum, photographed by Jerry Lanfear — fig. h Jerry Lanfear, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203124617

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Flowering n = 7,228 observations

232

1008

2566

2143

819

114

Flowering observations of Geranium dissectum by month
Month	Observations
Jan	91
Feb	232
Mar	1008
Apr	2566
May	2143
Jun	819
Jul	114
Aug	34
Sep	34
Oct	62
Nov	81
Dec	44

Peak flowering in Apr, from 7,228 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 49 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Geranium angustifolium Gilib.
Geranium baumgartenianum Schur
Geranium baumgartenianum Schur
Geranium decumbens R.Knuth
Geranium dissectum f. albiflorum R.Fern.
Geranium dissectum f. byzantinum (Griseb.) Borza
Geranium dissectum f. erectum Patze ex Gams
Geranium dissectum f. furcatum (Schur) Gams
Geranium dissectum f. purpureum (Kuntze) Gams
Geranium dissectum f. roseum (Kuntze) Gams
Geranium dissectum f. subintegrilobatum (Godet) Gams
Geranium dissectum subsp. albidum (Kuntze) Kamelin
Geranium dissectum subvar. pilosum Benth.
Geranium dissectum unranked albidum (Kuntze) Graebn.
Geranium dissectum var. alba A. Huet ex Nyman
Geranium dissectum var. albidum Kuntze
Geranium dissectum var. album Graebn.
Geranium dissectum var. baumgartenianum Schur ex Nyman
Geranium dissectum var. baumgartenianum Schur ex Graebn.
Geranium dissectum var. byzantinum Griseb.
Geranium dissectum var. dissectum
Geranium dissectum var. erectum Wimm. & Grab.
Geranium dissectum var. furcatum Schur
Geranium dissectum var. glutinosum T.Terracc.

and 25 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.