Pelargonium articulatum

Pelargonium articulatum, commonly known in Afrikaans as the kransmalva (rock geranium), is a tufted perennial growing from a rhizome to heights around 50 cm. The rhizome often has narrowed, constricted parts. The plant tends to thrive under bigger shrubs. 

The rounded leaves, lobed at the base, grow directly from the rhizome on long petioles. The blades are soft, variably hairy and usually with dark zonal markings around their centres. The plants are sometimes summer deciduous.

The species distribution is in the Northern Cape from the Richtersveld and Namaqualand to the Western Cape inland, as far as Worcester and eastwards into the west of the Great Karoo.

The habitat is sheltered scrubveld slopes and ridges among rocks where the soil is loamy. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Shearing and Van Heerden, 2008; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).