Geraniaceae is a small nursery in Marin County, California (Zone 9b) specializing in some of the plants of the Geranium family. The nursery was started in 1983 and over the years we have noted a phenomenal increase in interest in hardy geraniums.

Geraniaceae is a family of flowering plants placed in the order Geraniales. The family name is derived from the genus Geranium. The family includes both the genus Geranium (the cranesbills, or true geraniums) and the garden plants called geraniums, which modern botany classifies as genus Pelargonium, along with other related genera.

Geraniales, the geranium order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, belonging to the basal Rosid group of the core eudicots. It consists of 5 families, 17 genera, and nearly 850 species, most of these belonging to Geraniaceae. Members are mainly herbs with some woody shrubs or …

Our geraniums are annual or perennial herbs with leaves that are alternate or opposite. The leaf blades are lobed or compound. They have a small appendage (a stipule) just beneath the point where they attach to the stem.

Geraniales is a small order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subclade of eudicots. The largest family in the order is Geraniaceae with over 800 species. In addition, the order includes the smaller Francoaceae with about 40 species. Most Geraniales are herbaceous, but there are also shrubs and small trees.

The Geraniaceae family is a small botanical family that contains about 750 species, grouped into to 5–11 genera (Ávila et al., 2013). Generally, it includes herbaceous plants, covered by glandular simple leaves usually deeply lobed, flowers with five petals, five sepals, five to fifteen stamens and five carpels yielding five fruits.

The Geranium or Cranebill family is a group of herbs or semi-woody dicots consisting of 11 genera and 650 species with wide distribution in both hemispheres. Leaves are palmately veined and usually with alternate arrangement. Flowers are 5-merous, bisexual, with regular symmetry and borne singly or in terminal peduncles.

Identify plants and flowers of the Geranium family (Geraniaceae) with these wildflower identification tools and a photo gallery with plants grouped according to families.

Mar 19, 2002 · There are 14 genera and 775 species in the Geraniaceae family. The three major genera include; Geranium with 300-400 species, Pelargonium with 250-280 species and Erodium with 60-90 species. They are annual or perennial herbs or shrubs that are often times aromatic.

May 3, 2023 · The family Geraniaceae is identified by usually lobed palmately or pinnately divided leaves, flowers with 5 free or basally connate sepals and 5 free petals (though in zygomorphic flowers petals sometimes reduced in number) and the unusual fruit that breaks up at the base into 5 mericarps, with its parts remaining united near the top.