Common name:
Shining cranesbill
Family:
Scientific name:
Geranium lucidum
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK except the northern Scottish Highlands
Height:
Up to 30 cm
Habitat:
Rocky places, old walls, waste ground, stony grassland, especially on calcareous soils
Flowers:
Five small pink, unnotched petals, ten stamens with white filaments and yellow anthers, and a hairless, light green calyx, ribbed and inflated towards the base, divided into pointed lobes towards the tip
Leaves:
Shiny, bright green, often reddish along the margins; hairless or nearly so. Partially divided (to less than half the way to the base) into five or seven lobes, which are very shallowly divided. Attached by long, reddish stalks
Season:
April to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
