Ivy geranium
Pelargonium peltatum (L.) L'Hér.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- 1.5 m
Geraniaceae
Also called Ivy leaved geranium, Ivy storksbill, Ivyleaf storksbill, Ivy-leaved pelargonium, Ivy pelargonium
Formerly Dibrachya clypeata, Dibrachya peltata, Dibrachya scutata, Geraniospermum peltatum, and 4 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
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Cape Prov.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.5 mRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Spread
- 1.5 mRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, red, pinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- géranium-lierre
- Japanese
- タテバテンジクアオイ, ツタバテンジクアオイ
- Chinese (China)
- 盾叶天竺葵
- Chinese
- 盾葉天竺葵, 盾叶天竺葵
- Swedish
- hängpelargon
- Estonian
- ripp-pelargoon, luuderohulehine pelargoon
- Lithuanian
- skydalapė pelargonija
- Italian
- geranio edera
- Afrikaans
- kolsuring, rankmalva
- Russian
- Пеларгония щитовидная
- Danish
- hængepelargonie
- Spanish
- Geranio hiedra
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Pelargonium peltatum (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.