Pelargonium ×asperum Willd.

Soft-wooded subshrub up to c. 75 cm tall, strongly aromatic, densely hairy. Stems with hairs deflexed. Stipules c. 1 cm long, ovate, acuminate. Petioles of lower lvs to > 8 cm long. Lamina to c. 7 × 10 cm on flowering plants, ± triangular, deeply divided into 3 lobes; lobes toothed and sinuate, rough above; 2 side lobes to c. 2 cm across, each with a secondary lobe near base; terminal lobe to c. 2.5 cm across, with a pair of secondary lobes. Umbels c. 10-flowered, densely covered in glandular hairs; peduncles 2–6 cm long; pedicels 1–6 mm long. Sepals 8–12 mm long, elliptic-lanceolate, green, densely hairy; calyx spur c. 3 mm long. Corolla pink; upper 2 petals 1–1.6 × 0.5–0.8 cm, with ± prominent purple markings and white central patch, and claw well developed; lower 3 petals 0.9–1.4 × 0.25–0.5 cm, with purple median line in lower 1/2, and claw not well differentiated. Style and stigmas becoming rose. Mericarps not seen.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Jan.–Dec.