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Pelargonium zonale (L.) L'Her.

Synonyms

Ciconium clarum, Ciconium cocciniflorum, Ciconium crenatum, Ciconium densiflorum, Ciconium leptopetalum, Ciconium leucanthum, Ciconium placidum, Ciconium rosula, Ciconium siccifolium, Ciconium stenopetalum, Ciconium zonale, Geraniospermum zonale, Geranium crenatum, Geranium ribifolium, Geranium stenopetalum, Geranium zonale, Hoarea amoena, Pelargonium amoenum, Pelargonium crenatum, Pelargonium densiflorum, Pelargonium leptopetalum, Pelargonium leucanthum, Pelargonium novum, Pelargonium ribifolium, Pelargonium siccifolium, Pelargonium stenopetalum

Common names

Horse-shoe pelargonium

Extract from Wikipedia article

Pelargonium zonale, known as horse-shoe pelargonium or wildemalva in Afrikaans, is a wild species of Pelargonium native to southern Africa west of Cape Province, belonging to the geranium family, Geraniaceae. It is one of the parents of the widely cultivated plant Pelargonium × hortorum, often called a "geranium", "zonal geranium" or "zonal pelargonium".

Pink flowers of horse-shoe pelargonium (Pelargonium zonale) in Aspire Park. Doha, Qatar, March 3, 2016
Sand Trail, Doha, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Pelargonium zonale, Wikipedia article
• Pelargonium zonale from www.catalogueoflife.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

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• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
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Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.