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Garden Geranium
Garden Geranium
Pelargonium × hybridum
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Perennial
Size
Small
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Subtropical shrubland
Range
Southern Africa
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Toxins
Status
Common

About

This flowering plant grows in sunny garden beds and containers. It secretes a sticky resin from its leaves that traps small insects to prevent herbivory.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Geraniales
Family
Geraniaceae
Genus
Pelargonium