Common name:
Cut-leaved crane's bill
Family:
Scientific name:
Geranium dissectum
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK, except the mountains of northern Scotland
Height:
Up to 60 cm
Habitat:
Fields, disturbed ground, hedgerows
Flowers:
Relatively small; five shallowly notched, pale to dark pink petals up to 6 mm long and a green calyx divided into five ribbed, ovate, bristle-tipped lobes, spreading when mature, and covered by sticky (glandular) hairs. Flowers form singly, close to the uppermost leaves
Fruit:
Five-lobed capsules with a long beak; glandular-hairy
Leaves:
Hairy, pinnately divided almost to the base, into narrow, linear, well-separated lobes, themselves further divided. The tips of the lobes are often reddish
Season:
May to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
