Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum) is a woodland garden staple, shining in the front row of a pollinator bed. With its mounding, gently spreading habit, it gradually fills in to form a lovely semi-evergreen groundcover!

Blooming from April through June, clusters of 2–5 cheerful lavender flowers rise above attractive, deeply divided palmate foliage. Wild Geranium grows best in part sun to shade with average to moist, well-drained soil, adding a soft pop of color along woodland edges and shaded borders.

While in bloom, Geranium maculatum provides a vital early-season food source for specialist bees like the Cranesbill Miner Bee (Andrena distans) and supports a wide range of other pollinators. After flowering, its unique seed capsules eject seeds forcefully, which are then consumed by many bird species!