Geranium sanguineum ''Max Frei''

Geranium sanguineum (Max Frei Bloody Cranesbill)

Max Frei Bloody Cranesbill

Max Frei Bloody Cranesbill is an easy-to-grow hardy geranium cultivar noted for its compact growth habit and reddish-purple flowers. Forms spreading mound of foliage. It features five-petaled, rosy-purple flowers and deeply-lobed, dark green leaves. Blooms in May and June with sparser rebloom through summer. Foliage turns attractive shades of red in autumn.

Easy-to-grow groundcover
Attractive late spring flowers continue into summer
Naturalizes to form large colony

Height

4-9 Inches

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Spread

12-24 Inches

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Interesting Notes

Common name refers to its deep purple/crimson flowers and crane-like seed head


USDA Hardiness Zone 3 - 8

Great Companions

Crested Iris Crested Iris (Iris cristata )
Purple Sage Purple Sage (Salvia officinalis ''Purpurea'')

Characteristics & Attributes

Exposure
Full Sun to Part Shade
Habit
Perennal
Landscape Use
Ground Cover
Water Needs
Low
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