Pelargonium vitifolium (l.) l'hér. Kuntze

Erect, branched, strongly aromatic shrub, up to 1 m high and 0.75 m in diameter. Stems herbaceous when young but soon becoming woody, villous and interspersed with glandular hairs. Leaves pilose to villous and densely interspersed with glandular hairs, green; lamina cordiform in outline, shallowly 3(-5)-lobed, base cordate, apices of lobes obtuse, margins irregularly crenate, (25-)45-60(-87) x (25-)60-80(-115) mm; petiole (25-)50(-145) mm long; stipules broadly ovate to triangular or narrowly triangular, often apiculate, 8-15 x 5-15 mm. Inflorescence: flowering branches with normal and smaller foliar leaves; peduncles 15-100 mm long, pilose to villous and densely interspersed with glandular hairs; involucral bracts ovate to lanceolate, acute to caudate, indumentum as on stipules, 5-10 x 2-5 mm; capitulum-like pseudo-umbels with 3-12 flowers each. Pedicel 0.5-3 mm long, indumentum as on stipules. Hypanthium 2-4 mm long, indumentum as on stipules. Sepals lanceolate, abaxially pilose to hirsute and with glandular hairs interspersed, green with a reddish-brown tint, ±10 x 2.5-4 mm. Petals pale pink to light pinkish-purple; posterior two spathulate, apices obtuse to retuse, with dark purple markings, reflexed at ±90°, ±18 x 7 mm; anterior three spathulate with narrow claws, slightly reflexed, ±16 x 5 mm. P. vitifolium flowers from August to January with a peak in October-November. Except for the midwinter months, odd flowers can be found throughout the year.