Geranium (disambiguation)

Geranium is a genus of 422 hardy flowering plant species.

Geranium may also refer to:

Plants

• Geraniales, a small order of flowering plants
  • Geraniaceae, a family of flowering plants placed in the order
  • Pelargonium, a genus of flowering plants formerly included in Geranium, and still commonly called geraniums
• Chenopodium botrys, feathered geranium or Jerusalem oak goosefoot
• Ixora spp, jungle geranium or West Indian jasmine
• Saxifraga stolonifera, strawberry geranium or creeping saxifrage
• Rosa moyesii 'Geranium', a shrub rose cultivar

Places

• Geranium, South Australia, a town in the Murraylands
• Geranium Plains, South Australia, a small town in the Mid North
• Geranium, Nebraska, a ghost town
• Geranium Township, Valley County, Nebraska
• "Geranium City", nickname of McDonough, Georgia
• Geraniums House, a landmark in Santa Felicidade, Brazil

Ships

• Géranium, a French Ham-class minesweeper
• HMAS Geranium, an Arabis-class sloop launched in 1915, originally HMS Geranium
• HMS Geranium (K16), a Flower-class corvette launched in 1940
• USS Geranium (1863), a steamship used as a tugboat

Arts and media

• A Geranium, 1911 movie starring Adele De Garde
• Geranium, the character of Ruby Dandridge in the Judy Canova Show
• "Geranium", a poem by Mary Ellen Solt
• "Geranium" (Geranio), a waltz by Pedro Elías Gutiérrez
• "Geranium Plant", an episode of Pat Novak for Hire
• "Geraniums", a poem by Roger Nash
• "The Geranium", a short story by Flannery O'Connor

Other uses

• Geranium the First (Géranium I^er), the nickname of Pierre Bourque (politician), a Québec politician
• 1227 Geranium, an outer main-belt asteroid
• "Geranium", a codeword for telescopes used in the letters of John Dobson (astronomer)
• Geranium red, a shade of red
• Geranium (restaurant), a restaurant in Denmark

See also

• Geranium oil, oil produced from Pelargonium graveolens
• List of Geranium species