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Geranium macrorrhizum
Also called Cranesbill, Rock Crane's Bill, Bulgarian Geranium, Big Rooted Geranium, Bigroot Geranium, Bigrooted Geranium
Bigroot geranium is a hardy, spreading perennial groundcover from the Balkans and southeastern Alps, grown for its aromatic leaves and summer flowers. It thrives in ordinary garden soil and tolerates dry shade better than most geraniums.
Geranium macrorrhizum is a species of hardy flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the genus Geranium, family Geraniaceae. It is native to the south-eastern Alps and the Balkans. Its common names include bigroot geranium, Bulgarian geranium, and rock crane's-bill.
It has five-lobed (palmate) leaves that are aromatic when crushed, with pale pink flowers in summer. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions, where it is used as a flowering groundcover, with named cultivars selected for flower colors from white through pink to magenta. The cultivars 'Ingwersen's Variety' (pale pink) and 'White-ness' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Geranium macrorrhizum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
