Ten benzamidinium salts of carboxylic acids, amides and sulfonamides have been crystallized from solution. Single-crystal X-ray analyses revealed various hydrogen bonding motifs which are discussed in terms of supramolecular synthons and graph sets. Benzamidinium hydrogen maleate (5a) crystallizes as large needles of up to > 3 cm length. Attempts to influence the crystal habit and size through a change of solvent and the presence of additives yielded a second polymorph (5b). The formation of the benzamidinium salts by mechanochemical reaction was also investigated. Grinding of benzamidine with nicotinic acid, salicylic acid, paminobenzoic acid, cyanuric acid, pimelic acid, saccharin and sulfathiazole with mortar and pestle or using a ball-mill gave compounds identical to those obtained by crystallization from solution. Time-dependent X-ray powder patterns of a stoichiometric benzamidine/cyanuric acid mixture suggested that the mechanochemical salt formation occured via the amorphous state. Ball-milling of benzamidine with sulfamerazine generated amorphous benzamidinium sulfamerazinate that was stable towards crystallization for at least two weeks, when stored at 25 % relative humidity.2