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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