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Geranium dalmaticum; photograph Nils Valland; Rigmor Wang, CC BY, via GBIF CC BYNils Valland; Rigmor Wang, CC BY, via GBIF

Geranium dalmaticum (Beck) Rech.f.

Dalmatian Crane's-bill

Geraniaceae · Albania, Yugoslavia · listed by its genus as a temperate garden plant

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Summary

Geranium dalmaticum, commonly called Dalmatian cranesbill, is a species of hardy flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the genus Geranium of the family Geraniaceae. It is native to the Pelješac peninsula of Dalmatia on the west coast of Croatia. Growing to only 10 cm (3.9 in) tall by up to 50 cm (20 in) broad, it is cultivated as a garden subject in temperate regions for its low mound of aromatic leaves and soft mauve colored flowers. The palmately lobed glossy green leaves are tinted red in the Autumn. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Geranium dalmaticum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Geranium

Geranium is a genus of 422 species of annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as geraniums, hardy geraniums, or cranesbills. They are found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, with the greatest diversity in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Geranium", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a temperate garden plant, listed under the genus Geranium in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial”, “temperate”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Geranium in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial”, “temperate”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 3 of the 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeAlbania, Yugoslavia · introduced: Great Britain · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker43.331, 17.042 · in the densest population, 4 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 37 km away. 81 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 4 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Bram vd Bergh, CC0, via GBIF (3); Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Geranium 106 in the reference

Geranium albanum Geranium albanum Geraniaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Tom RiggleGeranium albiflorum Geranium albiflorum Geraniaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexander DubyninGeranium alboroseum Geranium alboroseum Geraniaceae Photo: CC BY, Thomas GyselinckGeranium argenteum Geranium argenteum Geraniaceae Photo: CC BY, Elias Geranium aristatum Geraniaceae Geranium asphodeloides Geranium asphodeloides Geraniaceae Photo: CC BY, Milan ChytrýGeranium bicknellii Geranium bicknellii Bicknell's cranesbill Photo: CC BY, Patrick JacksonGeranium bohemicum Geranium bohemicum Geraniaceae Photo: CC BY, Tatyana SovaGeranium brevicaule Geranium brevicaule Alpine Crane's Bill Photo: CC BY, Felix CollinsGeranium caespitosum Geranium caespitosum Pineywoods geranium Photo: CC0, author not statedGeranium carolinianum Geranium carolinianum Carolina crane's-bill Photo: CC0, author not statedGeranium cataractarum Geranium cataractarum Geraniaceae Photo: CC BY, Rafael Medina all 107 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Geranium macrorhizum var. dalmaticum; Geranium macrorhizum var. illyricum; Geranium macrorrhizum subsp. dalmaticum; Geranium macrorrhizum subsp. microrhizum; Geranium macrorrhizum var. dalmaticum and 4 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Geraniaceae
Described by
(Beck) Rech.f.
Native to
Albania, Yugoslavia
Wild records
4 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 3 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (3 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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