Gooseberry Geranium

Description

Pelargonium grossularioides-is a species of-geranium-known by the common names-gooseberry geranium-and-coconut geranium. It is native to southern Africa and it is known in coastal-California-and parts of-India-as an-introduced species. It is sometimes grown as a-garden-geranium. This is a glandular, aromatic perennial herb with an erect, angular, reddish stem 20 to 50 centimeters tall. The green to reddish leaves are a few centimeters long and slightly lobed with toothed edges. The-inflorescence-is an-umbel-of 3 to 50 flowers in shades of light pink to dark reddish purple. There are five narrow petals no more than 6 millimeters long.