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§1 Plant

Geranium molle L.

vernacular dovefoot geranium — species · Geraniaceae


USDA
GEMO
GBIF
2891488
Rank
species
dovefoot geranium (Geranium molle)
Platephotograph · no rights reservedCC0 · public domain source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial, Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Geraniaceae Juss.
Genus
Geranium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 272 counties across 27 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 272 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 272 counties across 27 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 5 I ▾
California view state ↗ 28 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 16 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 21 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 19 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 66 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 21 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 I ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/GEMO ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2891488 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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