Browse by Family: Geraniaceae

Plant Group: Dicotyledon

Family Description:
Herbs or undershrubs with lobed or compound usually stipulate leaves. Flowers regular or slightly zygomorphic, hermaphrodite and in five parts. Stamens usually in 2 whorls, sometimes some are sterile, filaments are united at the base. The ovary is superior, usually lobed and with a long beak ending in free stigmas. Fruit a lobed capsule, usually opening septicidally from base to apex.

Genera	Species	Images
Geranium Rosetted or sprawling plants with small cupped white or pink flowers of five petals and ten stamens, leaves round to kidney-shaped, deeply divided on long stalks. Fruits splitting from the base while still joined at the apex, then curling up like springs, detaching suddenly to carry the seed some distance away. The position of hairs on leaf stalks is important for recognition of species.	homeanum
Geranium Rosetted or sprawling plants with small cupped white or pink flowers of five petals and ten stamens, leaves round to kidney-shaped, deeply divided on long stalks. Fruits splitting from the base while still joined at the apex, then curling up like springs, detaching suddenly to carry the seed some distance away. The position of hairs on leaf stalks is important for recognition of species.	solanderi
Pelargonium Differs from Geranium species in having the two upper petals larger than the others and always slightly separated from them. There is a nectar-spur at the base of the calyx. Three to eight of the ten stamens have anthers.	australe