Geranium maculatumL.

wild geranium

WFO wfo-0000700788 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Geranium maculatum, photographed by Erik Schiff
fig. a Erik Schiff, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205831157
Geranium maculatum, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. b Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203367901
Geranium maculatum, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. c Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203487663
Geranium maculatum, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. d Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203359395
Geranium maculatum, photographed by magpray
fig. e magpray, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202715090
Geranium maculatum, photographed by Brittany
fig. f Brittany, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202836116
Geranium maculatum, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. g Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202228005
Geranium maculatum, photographed by Alan Prather
fig. h Alan Prather, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202932369

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 10,743 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 10,743 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 14 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 album Myers
  • Geranium ludovicianum Raf.
  • Geranium maculatum f. albiflorum Raf. ex House
  • Geranium maculatum f. maculatum
  • Geranium maculatum var. albiflorum Raf.
  • Geranium maculatum var. album H.M.Myers
  • Geranium maculatum var. album Lauman
  • Geranium maculatum var. diphyllum Raf.
  • Geranium maculatum var. humile Raf.
  • Geranium maculatum var. macrophyllum Raf.
  • Geranium maculatum var. parviflora N.Coleman
  • Geranium maculatum var. pleno Lauman
  • Geranium maculatum var. plenum Lauman
  • Geranium maculatum var. viride Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. 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.