Identity theft: Geraniums reclaim their name

Joan Morris for the Bay Area News Group recently wrote an interesting article, with historical references, on the differences between Geraniums and Pelargoniums. A very common mistake that she pinpoints attributable to the father of plant taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus, who "decided there was no reason to divide the geraniums, the plants you only thought you had, from the pelargoniums, the plants you most likely do have".

The complete article is available at the Mercury News site>