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Pelargonium album J.J.A.van der Walt

Pilgrim's Rest pelargonium

Geraniaceae · Northern Provinces

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Summary

Pelargonium album is a species of flowering plant of the genus Pelargonium. This species is native to South Africa. It is an apple/mint scented pelargonium which is very closely related to Pelargonium odoratissimum. It is in the subgenus reniforme along with Pelargonium sidoides and P. exstipulatum.

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About the genus · Pelargonium

Pelargonium is a genus of flowering plants commonly called geraniums, pelargoniums, or storksbills. It includes about 280 species of perennials, succulents, and shrubs. Taxonomist Carl Linnaeus originally included all the species of Pelargonium and Geranium under the latter name. More on Wikipedia ›

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Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 16 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 16 of the 16 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.
NativeNorthern Provinces · 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 marker-24.755, 30.762 · in the densest population, 16 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“scrambling subshrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 16 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 13 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 4 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 16 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 16 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: (c) katuchka, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Pelargonium 123 in the reference

Pelargonium abrotanifolium Pelargonium abrotanifolium Southernwood geranium Photo: CC BY-SA, Dave UPelargonium acetosum Pelargonium acetosum Sorrel-leaf pelargonium Photo: CC BY, Bruno - Yolande ZanettePelargonium acraeum Pelargonium acraeum Horseshoe pelargonium Photo: CC0, author not statedPelargonium alchemilloides Pelargonium alchemilloides Lady's mantle-leaved pelargonium Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicola van BerkelPelargonium alternans Pelargonium alternans Cauliflower Storksbill Photo: CC BY, Darren ObbardPelargonium althaeoides Pelargonium althaeoides Fire Pelargonium Photo: CC BY, Danie PalmPelargonium antidysentericum Pelargonium antidysentericum Geraniaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPelargonium appendiculatum Pelargonium appendiculatum Geraniaceae Photo: CC BY, Jeremy GilmorePelargonium aridum Pelargonium aridum Geraniaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloPelargonium auritum Pelargonium auritum Various-Leaved Storksbills Photo: CC BY, Vicente LopesPelargonium australe Pelargonium australe Geraniaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, James K. DouchPelargonium barklyi Pelargonium barklyi Geraniaceae Photo: CC BY, Matt Berger all 124 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Geraniaceae
Described by
J.J.A.van der Walt
Native to
Northern Provinces
Wild records
16 in range · 13 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
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2216 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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