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| Growth Type: Perennial
Hardiness Zones: 2 - 8
Location at Monticello: West Lawn
Planting Conditions: Part Sun
| Wild Geranium
Geranium maculatum
In his New England Rareties (1762), John Josselyn called the Wild Geranium "Raven's-Claw," and in 1814 Frederick Pursh noted the name "Alum-root, on account of the astringent test of the roots." Its name derives from geranos, the Greek word for crane, alluding to the long beak of the seed. While in France in 1786, Thomas Jefferson requested plants of this species from the nursery of Quaker botanist John Bartram, Jr., to share with his many Paris friends.
Check Monticello's on-line shops for seeds or plants of Wild Geranium.
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