Citation: L. Bailey, Standard Cyclop. Hort. 2532 (1916).

Synonymy: -P. cucullatum sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 484 (1948).

Common name: Garden geranium.

Description:
Diffuse shrub to 1 m high, covered with long soft patent eglandular hairs and shorter eglandular and glandular ones; leaves alternate, broad-ovate to almost deltoid, to 8 cm long and c. 10 cm wide, shallowly lobed and dentate with acute teeth, often cucullate; petioles to 5 cm long.

Flowers in umbels of usually 3-6; peduncles to 8 cm long; pedicels 2-4 cm long, hairy as the stems; sepals narrow-elliptic to oblong, 2-3 cm long; sepal spur usually 1-2 cm long; petals various shades of pink with darker markings, 2 or 3 times as long as the sepals; c. 8 stamens fertile.

Usually very poor seed set.

Published illustration: Macoboy (1969) What flower is that?, fig. 729.

Distribution:    Also present as a garden escape in N.S.W. and Tas. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Jan.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: A very variable horticultural "species" with P. cucullatum and P. angulatum amongst the putative ancestors.

Author: Not yet available