Geranium nepalenseSweet

WFO wfo-0000700930 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Geranium nepalense, photographed by Ramnarayan K
fig. a Ramnarayan K, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-15 / obs. 143667877
Geranium nepalense, photographed by Aravinth
fig. b Aravinth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91656161
Geranium nepalense, photographed by Ansil B.R.
fig. c Ansil B.R., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153519424
Geranium nepalense, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52036216
Geranium nepalense, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. e Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 112518763
Geranium nepalense, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 163303159
Geranium nepalense, photographed by PRIYA RAUTELA
fig. g PRIYA RAUTELA, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156416576
Geranium nepalense, photographed by PRIYA RAUTELA
fig. h PRIYA RAUTELA, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155297087

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
05146654
Filed as
Geranium nepalense Sweet
Det. by
K. Fujikawa 2014-06-01
Collected
K. Fujikawa 2013-08-22
Origin
MM
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Geranium nepalense is native: Afghanistan, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Korea, Kuril Is., Qinghai, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya AfghanistanChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastInner MongoliaQinghaiTibetAssamEast HimalayaLaosMyanmarNepalPakistanThailandVietnamWest Himalaya Korea
Native distribution of Geranium nepalense, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Inner Mongolia CHI
Korea KOR
Kuril Is. KUR
Qinghai CHQ
Tibet CHT
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 113 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -6.2 °C 0.5 °C 9.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.9 °C 22.2 °C 25.8 °C
Annual rainfall 952 mm 2,283 mm 4,346 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 40 mm 83 mm 270 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 113 research-grade observations of Geranium nepalense that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 20 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 fangii R.Knuth
  • Geranium jinchuanense Z.M.Tan
  • Geranium lavergneanum H.Lév.
  • Geranium lavergneanum var. cinerascens H.Lév.
  • Geranium mexicanum Fisch., C.A.Mey. & Avé-Lall. ex B.D.Jacks.
  • Geranium mexicanum hort. ex Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Geranium nepalense f. albiflora (Chung) W.Lee
  • Geranium nepalense var. glabratum H.Hara
  • Geranium nepalense var. nepalense
  • Geranium nepalense var. oliganthum (C.C.Huang) C.C.Huang & L.R.Xu
  • Geranium nepalense var. pallidum Nakai
  • Geranium oliganthum C.C.Huang
  • Geranium pallidum Royle
  • Geranium pallidum Royle ex Edgew. & Hook.f.
  • Geranium patens Royle
  • Geranium patens Royle ex Edgew. & Hook.f.
  • Geranium quinquenerve Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
  • Geranium radicans DC.
  • Geranium sibiricum Miq. ex R.Knuth
  • Geranium thunbergii var. albiflorum I.C.Chung

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.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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