PELARGONIUM

[pel.ar.go.ni.um] n [NL, fr. Gk pelargos stork (akin to Gk pelios livid, polios gray) + NL -nium (as in Geranium)--more at fallow] (ca. 1819): any of a genus (Pelargonium) of southern African herbs (as a garden geranium) of the geranium family with showy flowers of various shades of red, pink, or white distinguished by a spurred calyx and irregular corolla