Rose Geranium
Pelargonium graveolens
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Rose Geranium
Identify Rose Geranium by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Rose-scented leaves, cultivated for geranium oil.
- Confirm leaf shape: Cordate.
- Confirm leaf margin: Toothed.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand.
- Confirm it sits within the Geraniaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Rose Geranium.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Pelargonium graveolens
- Genus
- Pelargonium
- Family
- Geraniaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Grown as garden plant
- Habitat type
- Cultivated
- Native to
- South Africa
- Distribution
- Grown in gardens
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- CordaterecordedHeart-shaped, with a notch at the base.“The leaf blade is soft, heart-shaped and palmately divided, blunt with lobed to coarsely toothed leaf lobes.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf margin
- ToothedrecordedA saw-like or jagged edge (serrate or dentate).“The leaf blade is soft, heart-shaped and palmately divided, blunt with lobed to coarsely toothed leaf lobes.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf surface
- PubescentrecordedCovered in short, soft hairs.“The leaves are deeply incised, velvety and soft to the touch (due to glandular hairs).” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Characters marked “recorded” are for Rose Geranium itself; the rest are typical of the Geraniaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Achene
Typical of the Geraniaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
About Rose Geranium
Rose Geranium (Pelargonium graveolens) is a herb in the Geraniaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand. It is grown as garden plant. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Uses
Locally it is grown for parts that are eaten and distilled for an aromatic oil.
Geraniaceae
Geranium family
Rose Geranium belongs to the Geraniaceae family.
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