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Geranium maculatum - WILD GERANIUM
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GER-MAC-X
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Very pretty mounding ground cover perennial with bigger lilac-pink flowers. It forms lovely clumps, and in good conditions also spreads by rhizomes to create colonies. The flowers are quite big and showy (1-1.5“), and the leaves are highly ornamental. Excellent perennial for woodland gardens, shaded flowers beds and borders, cottage gardens, medicinal plant collections, low maintenance plantings, naturalizing and mass ground cover plantings.
Native Americans treated diarrhea, sore throat, and mouth ulcers with a tea made from the whole plant. The roots were brewed in hot water to help with inflamed gums and toothache, and dried powdered roots are used to help stop bleeding.
It is nice with Bergenia, Brunnera, Helleborus, blue-gray Hosta, Omphalodes, or Pulmonaria. Good companions are native perennials and their cultivars including Actaea (or Cimicifuga), Agastache foeniculum, Asarum, Asclepias exaltata, Aster ( A. ciliolatus, A. cordifolius, A. divaricatus, A. novae-agliae, A. macrophyllus), Eupatorium coelestinum, Hepatica, Heuchera, Iris cristata, Mertensia virginica, Penstemon calycosus, Podophyllum peltatum, Polemonium reptans, Phlox paniculata, woodland phloxes (P. bifida, P. divaricata, P. stolonifera), Rudbeckia fulgida, Sanquinaria canadensis, Sedum ternatum, Senecio aureus, Silene virginica, Solidago caesia, Solidago flexicaulis, Stylophorum diphyllum, Trillium etc. Also pairs well with Native ferns or grasses like Carex, Chasmantium latifolium, and Deschampsia caespitosa.
Blooming Time: May–June/July
Size: 1.5-2’ high x 1-1.5’ wide
USDA Zones: 3 to 8
Culture: half shade, shade, grows well in average soil with medium moisture. Some drainage is useful, but it will tolerate loam, rocky, sandy or acidic soils and drought conditions. With permanent moisture it will tolerate more sun.
Moisture Needs: medium, medium-dry
Origin: Native to eastern North America from Quebec to Manitoba and south to the Florida panhandle and Louisiana. Usually found in deciduous woodlands, alluvial forests, thickets, roadsides, savannas, meadows, rocky glades, and sometimes in wet prairies.
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes/yes, but there are regional reports of occasional browsing by deer
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes, bumblebees, several native bees, butterflies, pollinating flies and and skippers. This wildflower hosts caterpillars of several moth species.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no, but some birds feed on seeds, as well as eastern chipmunks
Pot Size: 3.5" x 4" perennial pot (1.22 pt/580 ml)
Geranium maculatum - WILD GERANIUM
$6.99
Very pretty mounding ground cover perennial with bigger lilac-pink flowers. It forms lovely clumps, and in good conditions also spreads by rhizomes to create colonies. The flowers are quite big and showy (1-1.5“), and the leaves are highly ornamental. Excellent perennial for woodland gardens, shaded flowers beds and borders, cottage gardens, medicinal plant collections, low maintenance plantings, naturalizing and mass ground cover plantings.
Native Americans treated diarrhea, sore throat, and mouth ulcers with a tea made from the whole plant. The roots were brewed in hot water to help with inflamed gums and toothache, and dried powdered roots are used to help stop bleeding.
It is nice with Bergenia, Brunnera, Helleborus, blue-gray Hosta, Omphalodes, or Pulmonaria. Good companions are native perennials and their cultivars including Actaea (or Cimicifuga), Agastache foeniculum, Asarum, Asclepias exaltata, Aster ( A. ciliolatus, A. cordifolius, A. divaricatus, A. novae-agliae, A. macrophyllus), Eupatorium coelestinum, Hepatica, Heuchera, Iris cristata, Mertensia virginica, Penstemon calycosus, Podophyllum peltatum, Polemonium reptans, Phlox paniculata, woodland phloxes (P. bifida, P. divaricata, P. stolonifera), Rudbeckia fulgida, Sanquinaria canadensis, Sedum ternatum, Senecio aureus, Silene virginica, Solidago caesia, Solidago flexicaulis, Stylophorum diphyllum, Trillium etc. Also pairs well with Native ferns or grasses like Carex, Chasmantium latifolium, and Deschampsia caespitosa.
Blooming Time: May–June/July
Size: 1.5-2’ high x 1-1.5’ wide
USDA Zones: 3 to 8
Culture: half shade, shade, grows well in average soil with medium moisture. Some drainage is useful, but it will tolerate loam, rocky, sandy or acidic soils and drought conditions. With permanent moisture it will tolerate more sun.
Moisture Needs: medium, medium-dry
Origin: Native to eastern North America from Quebec to Manitoba and south to the Florida panhandle and Louisiana. Usually found in deciduous woodlands, alluvial forests, thickets, roadsides, savannas, meadows, rocky glades, and sometimes in wet prairies.
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes/yes, but there are regional reports of occasional browsing by deer
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes, bumblebees, several native bees, butterflies, pollinating flies and and skippers. This wildflower hosts caterpillars of several moth species.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no, but some birds feed on seeds, as well as eastern chipmunks
Pot Size: 3.5" x 4" perennial pot (1.22 pt/580 ml)
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Get looking plants! Some yellow leaves on the wild geraniums, due to my not picking plant up in time. Owners are very helpful and all of the many kinds of plants were much larger than I expected and very healthy. I sent the link to gardening friends. Only able to use website to order and to contact US Perennials. Wish they had a phone number, but understand why they don't. Google maps took me directly to the family nursery, no sign in front so I was concerned I was in wrong place. Very pretty gardens in the yard, which is up on a hill. I parked along road and the owners brought plants down on cart and loaded into my car. Great plants and great service!!!!! Will order again from this nursery!
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Plants
Get looking plants! Some yellow leaves on the wild geraniums, due to my not picking plant up in time. Owners are very helpful and all of the many kinds of plants were much larger than I expected and very healthy. I sent the link to gardening friends. Only able to use website to order and to contact US Perennials. Wish they had a phone number, but understand why they don't. Google maps took me directly to the family nursery, no sign in front so I was concerned I was in wrong place. Very pretty gardens in the yard, which is up on a hill. I parked along road and the owners brought plants down on cart and loaded into my car. Great plants and great service!!!!! Will order again from this nursery!