Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Spessart’
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By Rob Hille (Own work) ‘Public domain’, via Wikimedia Commons

Geranium

Cranesbill

We’re talking about hardy Geraniums, not the better-known, anything-but-subtle Pelargoniums. True Geraniums are sturdy yet refined, with five-petaled flowers borne on dainty stems close to the palmately-divided leaves.

Their spectrum of colors, from cool to electric, is rivaled only by their ability to create soft mounds and flowing carpets of lush foliage in ordinary garden soil. We plant a succession of varieties to always have some in bloom from spring to fall. Our selections are easily grown and will rebloom after flowering if lightly trimmed. Most die back in winter.

Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Spessart’   

With a distinctive fresh fragrance and stamina galore, this mat-forming perennial yields a natty carpet of long-petioled, thick and broadly lobed pubescent leaves. Plentiful clustered white flowers blush the palest pink in summer, sporting pink calyxes and stamen filaments.

Spreading by a hearty underground rootstock, the dense semievergreen foliage manifests bright reds and yellows during autumn and makes a suitable understory for Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Amethyst’.

Blooms May – August.

Size: 12" high x 15"–18" wide; hardy to zone 4.

Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Spessart’ (P-1029)
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Other selections in this genus

• Geranium ‘Ann Folkard’
• Geranium ‘Brookside’
• Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Cambridge Blue’
• Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘St. Ola’
• Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Westray’
• Geranium harveyi
• Geranium ‘Havana Blues’
• Geranium himalayense ‘Baby Blue’
• Geranium himalayense ‘Derrick Cook’
• Geranium ‘Johnson’s Blue’
• Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Bevan’s Variety’
• Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Ingwersen’s Variety’
• Geranium macrorrhizum ‘White Ness’
• Geranium maculatum ‘Espresso’
• Geranium maderense ‘Guernsey White’
• Geranium x magnificum
• Geranium ‘Melinda’
• Geranium monacense ‘Claudine Dupont’
• Geranium monacense ‘Muldoon’
• Geranium ‘Nimbus’
• Geranium nodosum
• Geranium nodosum ‘Svelte Lilac’
• Geranium ‘Orion’
• Geranium ‘Patricia’
• Geranium phaeum ‘Album’
• Geranium phaeum ‘Langthorn’s Blue’
• Geranium phaeum ‘Lily Lovell’
• Geranium phaeum ‘Samobor’
• Geranium phaeum ‘Walküre’
• Geranium ‘Phillipe Vapelle’
• Geranium platypetalum ‘Turco’
• Geranium pratense ‘Laura’
• Geranium pratense ‘Plenum Violaceum’
• Geranium renardii
• Geranium renardii ‘Tcschelda’
• Geranium x riversleaianum ‘Mavis Simpson’
• Geranium ‘Rozanne’
• Geranium sanguineum var. lancastriense
• Geranium sanguineum ‘Album’
• Geranium wallichianum ‘Buxton’s Variety’
• Geranium wallichianum ‘Crystal Lake’