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Long-stalked Crane's-bill, Geranium columbinum Family: Geraniaceae
Long-stalked Crane's-bill
Geranium columbinum


Flowering time: May-September. Annual. Native

Grows on warm, dry and mainly calcareous soils among grassland, dunes, scrub and on rocky ground

A scrambling, sparsely hairy plant with long-stalked purplish-pink flowers, the petals usually un-notched and hairless or sparsely hairy fruit. Leaves are long-stalked and deeply divided into 5-7 lobes, upper leaves opposite.


Long-stalked Crane's-bill, Geranium columbinum

Long-stalked Crane's-bill, Geranium columbinum

Long-stalked Crane's-bill, Geranium columbinum
Long-stalked Crane's-bill, Geranium columbinum
Badbury Rings, Dorset. June 2014

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