Geranium sibiricumL.

Siberian geranium

WFO wfo-0000701339 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Geranium sibiricum, photographed by Екатерина Гущина
fig. a Екатерина Гущина, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 199684287
Geranium sibiricum, photographed by Екатерина Гущина
fig. b Екатерина Гущина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199326146
Geranium sibiricum, photographed by Екатерина Гущина
fig. c Екатерина Гущина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199325920
Geranium sibiricum, photographed by Екатерина Гущина
fig. d Екатерина Гущина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198855604
Geranium sibiricum, photographed by Екатерина Гущина
fig. e Екатерина Гущина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198864613
Geranium sibiricum, photographed by Екатерина Гущина
fig. f Екатерина Гущина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198860395
Geranium sibiricum, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. g Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198133098
Geranium sibiricum, photographed by Екатерина Гущина
fig. h Екатерина Гущина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195918887

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
01527811
Filed as
Geranium sibiricum L.
Det. by
D. E. Atha 2012-01-01
Collected
D. E. Atha 2011-07-09
Origin
US
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 40 botanical countries

Regions where Geranium sibiricum is native: Afghanistan, Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Primorye, Qinghai, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, West Himalaya, Baltic States, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine AfghanistanAltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKamchatkaKazakhstanKhabarovskKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaNorth CaucasusPrimoryeQinghaiTadzhikistanTibetTranscaucasusTürkiyeTuvaUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaWest HimalayaBaltic StatesBulgariaCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaRomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine Korea
Native distribution of Geranium sibiricum, 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
Altay ALT
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Kirgizstan KGZ
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Tadzhikistan TZK
Tibet CHT
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Tuva TVA
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
Baltic States BLT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
East European Russia RUE
Northwest European Russia RUW
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
West Himalaya WHM ASIA-TROPICAL

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.

Flowering 527 in flower of 671 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Geranium sibiricum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 527 of 671 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,002 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -24.7 °C -12.1 °C -5.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.9 °C 23.2 °C 25.9 °C
Annual rainfall 401 mm 616 mm 910 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 32 mm 97 mm 126 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,002 research-grade observations of Geranium sibiricum 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 15 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 acrocarphum Ledeb.
  • Geranium amurense Tsyren.
  • Geranium europaeum Popov ex Bobrov
  • Geranium europaeum Popov
  • Geranium popovii (Tzvelev) Tzvelev
  • Geranium rotundifolium Ledeb. ex B.D.Jacks.
  • Geranium ruthenicum R.Uechtr.
  • Geranium sibiricum f. glabrius H.Hara
  • Geranium sibiricum subsp. eusibiricum Gams
  • Geranium sibiricum subsp. popovii Tzvelev
  • Geranium sibiricum subsp. ruthenicum (R.Uechtr.) Nyman
  • Geranium sibiricum subsp. ruthenicum (R.Uechtr.) Gams
  • Geranium sibiricum var. glabrius (H.Hara) Ohwi
  • Geranium sibiricum var. multiflorum Z.H.Lu
  • Geranium variabile Moench

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.