| Family | GERANIACEAE |
| Genus species | Geranium sylvaticum L. |
| Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 2: 681 (1753) |
| Native Range | Europe to n. Iran and c. Siberia |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | grassland and woods |
| Altitude | 50-3200m |
| Description | basal leaves 6-12cm, palmatipartite, appressed hirsute, segments 5-7, rhombic, 24-34-lobate, flowers of two in cyme, petals 18-21mm long, entire |
| Size | 15-70cm |
| Color | blue, pink, violet |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | - |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | cold, semi-shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, semi-shade |
| Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C division in early spring and fall; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Geranium alpestre Schur Geranium angulatum Curtis Geranium argenteum Geners. ex Wahlenb. Geranium batrachioides Cav. Geranium caeruleopurpureum Gilib. Geranium caroli-principis Pantu Geranium eglandulosum (Čelak.) Dalla Torre Geranium endressii var. glandulosum Sennen Geranium fastigiatum (Fr.) Gilemann Geranium lemanianum Briq. Geranium losae Sennen Geranium purpureocaeruleum Ledeb. Geranium ranunculifolium Schur ex Nyman Geranium striatum Clairv. Geranium sylvaticum var. fastigiatum Fr. Geranium sylvaticum var. ferrugineum Wahlenb. Geranium sylvaticum ssp. glanduligerum Petrova & Kožuharov Geranium sylvaticum f. minoriflorum Brenner Geranium sylvaticum var. minus Gray Geranium sylvaticum var. parviflorum Brenner Geranium sylvaticum f. sublilacinum C.G.Westerl. Geranium sylvaticum var. vestitum (Lange) Graebn. Geranium sylvestre Olafsen & Pov. ex Bab. Geranium transsylvanicum Schott & Kotschy ex R.Knuth Geranium venosum Pers. |
| Territory | 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (DEN Denmark, FIN Finland, FOR Fřroyar, GRB Great Britain, ICE Iceland, IRE Ireland, NOR Norway, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, BGM Belgium, CZE Czechoslovakia, GER Germany, HUN Hungary, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (COR Corse, FRA France, SPA Spain) 13 Southeastern Europe (ALB Albania, BUL Bulgaria, GRC Greece, ITA Italy, ROM Romania, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (BLR Belarus, BLT Baltic States, RUC Central European Russia, RUE East European Russia, RUN North European Russia, RUS South European Russia, RUW Northwest European Russia, UKR Ukraine) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, WSB West Siberia) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 33 Caucasus (NCS North Caucasus, TCS Transcaucasus) 34 Western Asia (IRN Iran, TUR Turkey) |