(https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=446)
Asia-Temperate
WESTERN ASIA: Turkey
CAUCASUS: Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia], Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation [Dagestan]
Europe
NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland (s.), United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway (s.), Sweden (s.)
MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
EASTERN EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part], Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine (incl. Krym)
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia, Italy (incl. Sicily), Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain, France, Portugal
Geranium sanguineum is a perennial plant with stout, horizontal rhizomes. Stems are diffused, branched, erect to decumbent, with long white patent hairs and sessile glands. Leaves are mostly cauline, 3-5 cm wide, divided into 5-7 lobes, each with 1-3 linear, oblong, acute segments on each side. Flowers are single on a 7-15 cm penduncle and stick out from nodes.