Geranium, Bloody Cranesbill

Geranium sanguineum
12-15 inches high x 12-18 inches wide
Zone 3
Full Sun to Part Sun

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2002 Great Plants® Perennial of the Year!
This rugged beauty brings a splash of wild elegance to even the toughest garden sites. Bloody Cranesbill bursts into bloom in late spring with vivid magenta, cup-shaped flowers that attract pollinators and light up the landscape. Its finely cut, rich green foliage forms a tidy, low mound that holds its shape through heat, wind, and drought. With a quick shearing after bloom, you’ll often get a second flush of color later in the season. As fall arrives, the foliage transforms into a glowing crimson red—earning its dramatic name.

Perfect for the front of borders, rock gardens, or naturalistic plantings, this mountain meadow native thrives in central Wyoming’s lean soils and harsh conditions without skipping a beat. A reliable, low-maintenance gem that’s as tough as it is beautiful.

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Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:

water_drops_icon  These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural annual precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought, but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these.
water_drops_iconwater_drops_icon  These plants are adapted to intermittent deep watering with soil drying to a depth of a few inches between waterings. Watering frequency may be every couple of weeks during the active growing season and maybe only one winter watering for optimal care.
water_drops_iconwater_drops_iconwater_drops_icon  These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season, and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant death.

About sizes of our plants:

Sizes indicated with a # are roughly the equivalent in gallonage; so a #2 is about a 2 gallon pot size; b&b stands for balled and burlapped.