Purple Crane's-bill - Geranium ibericum x platypetalum = G. x magnificum
Similar to our native Meadow Crane's-bill, but the flowers are often slightly deeper or more purple-blue in colour and the leaves are less deeply cut.
This is a cultivated plant that sometimes escapes and thrives for a time in the wild often close to habitation.
Flowers June to August.
Perennial.
Widespread as an escape from cultivation, particularly well recorded in Scotland and Wales.
Rare as a wild plant in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Graham Calow
Maynes Lakes, Stoke Golding
01 June 2017
Graham Calow
Maynes Lakes, Stoke Golding
01 June 2017
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- Common names
- Purple Crane's-bill
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Geraniales
- Family:
- Geraniaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 01/06/2017 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 01/06/2017 (Calow, Graham)
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Graham Calow
Maynes Lakes, Stoke Golding
01 June 2017
