Trending: wild geranium (Geranium maculatum) — 1212 observations this week
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Phenology
Wild geranium is blooming right now in woodland gardens and forest edges near you — spotting one means your local ecosystem still supports the native bees and early pollinators that depend on its nectar to survive spring.
Wild geranium is a native wildflower with pretty pink-purple blooms that appears in forests and shady gardens every spring. This week, over 1,200 people across North America photographed and submitted confirmed sightings of it to the iNaturalist app. That flood of observations helps scientists track where this plant is thriving, where it's disappearing, and how its bloom timing may be shifting with changing seasons.
Key Findings
1,212 research-grade observations of wild geranium were recorded on iNaturalist in a single week
Wild geranium ranked among the top trending plant species on iNaturalist for the current observation period
The observation surge aligns with the species' typical spring bloom window, reflecting strong phenological citizen-science engagement
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Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum) is one of the most-observed plants on iNaturalist this week, with 1,212 research-grade sightings logged by citizen scientists across North America. This spike in observations coincides with the species' spring bloom period.
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Geranium maculatum, the wild geranium, spotted geranium, or wood geranium, is a perennial plant native to woodlands in eastern North America, from southern Manitoba and southwestern Quebec south to Alabama and Georgia and west to Oklahoma and South Dakota.