Geranium pratense

Geranium pratense
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Geraniales
Family: Geraniaceae
Genus: Geranium
Species: G. pratense
Binomial name
Geranium pratense
L.

Geranium pratense, the meadow crane's-bill[1] or meadow geranium,[2] is a species of hardy flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the genus Geranium and family Geraniaceae.[3]

Description

The leaves are deeply divided into 7-9 lobes and 3-6 inch wide and the flowers are pale blue, although getting paler into the centre. The flowers have 5 petals, which sometimes have veins. The stamens have pink-purple stalks with dark purple anthers.

Distribution

It is native to much of Europe and Asia, but is cultivated and naturalized elsewhere.[4][2] Several cultivars are available for garden use, of which 'Mrs Kendall Clark'[5] and 'Plenum violaceum'[6] have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Names

Meadow cranesbill is its most common name, although other names include 'meadow crane's-bill' and 'meadow geranium'.

References

  1. "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  2. 1 2 "Geranium pratense". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  3. Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. and Warburg, E.F. 1968. Excursion Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0 521 04656 4
  4. Geranium pratense L., GRIN Taxonomy for Plants
  5. "RHS Plant Selector - Geraium pratense 'Mrs Kendal Clark'". Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  6. "RHS Plant Selector - Geranium pratense 'Plenum violaceum'". Retrieved 20 June 2013.
Geranium pratense 'Mrs. Kendall Clark' showing flower detail


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