Rose-scented geranium
Pelargonium capitatum (L.) L'Hér.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 81 cm
- wide
- 1.1 m
Geraniaceae
Also called Rose scented geranium, Common Storksbill, Rose-scented pelagonium, Coast pelargonium, Rose-Scented Pelargonium
Formerly Geraniospermum capitatum, Geraniospermum clavatum, Geranium capitatum, Geranium rosa, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Cape Prov. to KwaZulu-NatalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 81 cmRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 100–100 cm; Plants For A Future 0.6–0.6 m
- Spread
- 1.1 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 1.5–1.5 m; Plants For A Future 0.6–0.6 m
- Flowers
- White, pink, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Chinese
- 頭狀天竺葵
- Afrikaans
- kusmalva
- Italian
- Pelargonio capitato
- Russian
- Пеларгония головчатая
- French
- Pélargonium à fleurs en tête
- Turkish
- Başlı Sardunya
- Finnish
- ruusupelargoni
- German
- Rosen-Duftpelargonie
- Slovak
- muškát hlavičkatý
- Chinese (China)
- 头状天竺葵
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Pelargonium capitatum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.