Scientific name: Geranium lucidum L.
Common name: Shining Crane's-bill
Description
Habit: A shiny sparsely hairy annual, to 40 cm high.
Stems: Erect or semi-erect.
Leaves: Opposite, with stipules, often reddish, rounded in outline, divided halfway to the base into 5 bluntly-toothed lobes.
Flowers: Pink, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 10 mm across, in pairs; sepals 5, hairless and strongly keeled; petals 5, free, not notched at tip; stamens 10; ovary superior.
Fruits: A dry, slightly hairy schizocarp, consisting of five 1-seeded portions which are at first united but later peeling away separately from the central axis, each with a long, persistent and straight style.
Habitat: Walls, rocks, limestone pavement.Distribution: Common on limestone, rare elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No