Citation: Ehrh. ex Willd., Sp. Pl. 3:678 (1800).

Synonymy: P. graveolens sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 484 (1948).

Common name: Rose (or rose-oil) geranium.

Description:
Spreading hairy soft-wooded shrub to 1 m high, with an aromatic smell; stems covered with harsh eglandular hairs and some glandular ones; leaves ovate in outline, to 7 cm long, pinnatisect with 5-7 lobes, hirsute; petioles to 10 cm long.

Flowers subsessile or on pedicels to 6 mm long, up to l0 in each umbel; peduncle to 6 cm long; calyx lobes to 9 mm long; sepal spur to 4 mm long; petals pink, marked with darker lines, to 2 cm long; stamens to 7 mm long; c. 6 fertile.

	Pelargonium xasperum leaf.
Image source: fig 390 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    also present as a garden escape in N.S.W. and Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Jan.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Cultivated for its aromatic oil.

Author: Not yet available