A type of geranium

The nursery identifies this as a geranium, but it just doesn’t look like any I am familiar with. However, I think it is a beautiful flower and reminds me somewhat of the Guerra.

[Susan Wakely]

A lovely flower and colour.

[Beryl Lloyd]

It does resemble the geranium family - leaves - pattern on petals! are all the flowers like this or are there some petals missing on this one!!

[Suzanne]

Lovely shot of what is possibly a Pelargonium rather than Geranium. Pelargoniums have two upper petals that are different from the three lower ones.

[Carole Sandford]

Lovely flower, beautiful colour!

[Mags]

Very pretty!

[Islandgirl]

What a gorgeous bloom!

[Valerie Chesney]

So lovely ..

[haskar]

Pretty flower and lovely colours.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

I know nothing about cultured flowers- although the leaves do look like a Geranium's leaves to me. Sounds like Suzanne is a gardener and knows what she's talking about! Beautiful color and design.

[Peter Dulis]

nice one

[Shutterbug]

@beryl All the blossoms were the same. There weren’t any missing petals. I am going to look up pelargonium to see Suzanne suggestion. Like Ann, I think the leaves look right for geranium.

[Shutterbug]

@wakelys @pdulis @ankers70 @carole_sandford @marlboromaam @radiogirl @happysnaps @haskar @olivetreeann @pdulis Amazing what one can learn on this site. So on Suzanne’s suggestion I looked up pelargonium and it can be a type of geranium according to Wikipedia. Thanks all for your suggestions.

[Joan Robillard]

Beautiful

[Beryl Lloyd]

@shutterbug49 We learn so much from this sight .. I always thought of pelargonium as a type of geranium. But I have never seen this form before . Never too old to learn! ...thanks for sharing .

[LManning (Laura)]

It is lovely.

[Jane Pittenger]

Nice sharp stamen

[wendy frost]

Lovely colours and details captured.

[amyK]

Beautiful

[Kathy]

It looks like a wild geranium. I really like the collor and the pattern on the petals.

[Diana]

Whatever it is, you certainly captured it so well! Love the details and colour.

[KWind]

So pretty!

[moni kozi]

Very nice blossom and cool details

[Issi Bannerman]

Lovely.

[Babs]

So interesting. I looked up pelargonium and I think Suzanne is right. We learn so much on 365.

[Wylie]

Certainly, of the geranium family, pretty.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Beautiful close up shot.

[Laura]

Beautiful flower. Very interesting conversation. I looked online as well, and it looks like pelargonium graveolens. They are from South Africa. The article stated that they looked like your photo and over time the nurseries have hybridized them so all 5 petals are the same size. The flower does look similar to gaura also.