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Light
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Partial, Shade
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Moisture
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Medium-Wet to Medium-Dry
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Bloom
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Mid-Spring
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Color
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Purple, Pink
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Height
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2 FT
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Wild geranium is a classic woodland wildflower commonly found in rich, mesic forests across the eastern United States. While wild geranium prefers some shade, it can tolerate full sun as long as it has consistently moist soil. Wild geranium is a one to two foot tall, clump-forming perennial that uses rhizomes and self-seeding to spread readily but not aggressively, making it an ideal groundcover for shaded situations. It is an attractive plant with deeply lobed, palmate foliage and loose clusters of five-petaled flowers in a breath-taking hue somewhere between pink and light purple. These spring blooms are an important food source for early pollinators, attracting bees and butterflies seemingly magnetically.
Following pollination, five seed pods per flower form around a central structure that resembles a large beak, earning this plant the common name cranesbill. In fact, the genus Geranium comes from the Greek word for crane. When the seed pods dry out, they separate at the base from the central structure and curl rapidly outward, literally catapulting their individual seeds away from the mother plant in a fascinating display of mechanical dispersal. In addition to supporting pollinators with its flowers, wild geranium hosts the white-marked tussock moth caterpillar.