Sticky Purple Geranium

Geranium viscosissimum

Pollinator plant

Growing it

When	Flowers June to July
Type	wildflower
Sun	Full sun, partial shade
Water	Low, medium
Soil	pH 5.5–7.5
Hardiness	zone 3–7
Mature height	0.5 m
Mature spread	0.45 m
Spacing	0.3 m
Years to maturity	2
Bloom	Jun–Jul
Flower colour	Purple checked against its common name
In bloom	June July
Native to	AB, SK

lobed leaves about 10 cm long in opposite pairs

Where it has been recorded

BothSpecimensObservations

86 squares of about 28 km, each holding at least one record. A square is not a claim that the plant grows throughout it, and an unshaded square is unrecorded rather than empty. Darker squares hold more records, which follows roads and towns as much as it follows the plant. 87 herbarium specimens and 735 field observations this project may redraw. A filled dot is a pressed sheet somebody can re-examine; a hollow ring is a photograph identified by community agreement. Where the dots are dense is where people have looked, not where the plant is commonest, and empty ground is unsurveyed rather than unoccupied. How this map is made.

Which ecoregions the records fall in

Northern Continental Divide south AB: 650 records, high confidence
Aspen Parkland central AB / SK: 558 records, high confidence
Fescue Grassland south AB: 278 records, high confidence
Cypress Upland south AB / SK: 223 records, high confidence
Western Alberta Upland central AB: 188 records, high confidence
Eastern Continental Ranges central AB: 27 records, high confidence
Moist Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 18 records, medium confidence
Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 8 records, medium confidence

These are counts of records collected somewhere in the region, which is the resolution of the evidence: the map above shows where inside it. A region with 3 records is not the same claim as one with three hundred, so the count travels with the region. A region missing from this list means nobody has recorded it there, which is not the same as the plant being absent. Records within 900 m of a border count for neither side, because the border is not drawn finely enough to say which one they are on. Source: GBIF occurrence search + PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pass, retrieved 2026-08-24. Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre. How these counts are made.

See every observation, live and current, on GBIF or iNaturalist.

Documented animals

74 documented relationships.

nectar for

Andrena medionitens Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Andrena melanochroa Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1175842 collection
Andrena miranda Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Andrena nigrocaerulea Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Andrena pallidifovea Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Andrena prunorum Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Black-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Brown-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Brown-tailed Bumble Bee LaManna et al. 2020
Canadian Tiger Swallowtail Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Carterocephalus skada Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Central Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Colletes fulgidus Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1166253 collection
Confusing Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Cosmopepla lintneriana Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eristalis hirta LaManna et al. 2020
Eucera frater Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Eupeodes volucris Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Frigid Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Golden Northern Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Half-black Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Halictus tripartitus Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1180513 collection
Heriades carinata Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1176433 collection
Heriades cressoni Specimen records from ecdysis.org
High Country Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Hobomok Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Hoplitis fulgida Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1180512 collection
Hoplitis producta Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1166170 collection
Hoplitis sambuci Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1175738 collection
Hunt's Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Hylaeus annulatus Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1176613 collection
Hylaeus basalis LaManna et al. 2020
Hylaeus modestus Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1180514 collection
Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Lasioglossum cressonii Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Lasioglossum incompletum Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1166137 collection
Lasioglossum marinense LaManna et al. 2020
Lasioglossum nigroviride LaManna et al. 2020
Megachile lapponica LaManna et al. 2020
Melissa Blue Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Melissodes lupinus Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1175572 collection
Northern Crescent Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Orange-banded Bumble Bee Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1156633 collection
Ornate Checkered Beetle Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Osmia albolateralis Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1176064 collection
Osmia bella Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1176617 collection
Osmia brevis Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Osmia californica Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1176435 collection
Osmia calla Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1176552 collection
Osmia juxta LaManna et al. 2020
Osmia montana Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Osmia nanula Specimen records from the USDA-ARS:BBSL1177160 collection
Osmia proxima Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Osmia pusilla Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Osmia subaustralis LaManna et al. 2020
Osmia trevoris Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Osmia tristella LaManna et al. 2020
Panurginus atriceps Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Red-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Scaeva affinis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Tharsalea dorcas Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Trichiotinus assimilis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Two-ranked Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Vancouver Bumble Bee Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Western Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Woodland Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Yellow Cuckoo Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org

pollen for

A Leafcutter Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
Hoplitis fulgida Clements & F. L. Long 1923
Hunt's Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
Hylaeus annulatus Clements & F. L. Long 1923
Two-ranked Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
Western Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923

Also worth knowing

Safety

Toxicity not assessed, absence of a warning is not a guarantee of safety

Buying it

About $8–$16 per plant (estimate), usually from a native-plant nursery. Estimate (herb default); AB retail as of 2026

Where these numbers came from

Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate