Pelargonium ×fragrans Willd.

A small, compact, bushy, nutmeg-scented subshrub to c. 50 cm tall, finely and densely puberulent. Petioles slender, to c. 4 cm long, greyish. Stipules lanceolate-acuminate. Lamina to c. 3.5 × 4 cm on flowering shoots, broad-ovate, with 3–5 lobes extending to c. 1/2 way, crenate-dentate, very crisped and undulate; base deeply cordate. Umbels on peduncles just exceeding lvs, reddish; pedicels to 7 mm long, < calyx spur, shining and glandular. Umbels few-flowered. Sepals 4–6 mm long, lanceolate, dark reddish, shining and with short glandular hairs; calyx spur c. 8 mm long. Corolla irregular, white; upper 2 petals 8–12 mm long, ± oblong and somewhat asymmetric, with crimson markings around middle; lower 3 petals 9–12 mm long, oblong-obovate, often asymmetric. Style and stigmas crimson. Mericarps not seen.

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

Flowering: Jan.–Dec.