Geranium pyrenaicum

Scientific name: Geranium pyrenaicum Burm. f.
Common name: Hedgerow Crane's-bill

Description
Habit: A hairy annual, to 30 cm high.
Stems: Erect to semi-erect, much-branched, without rhizome.
Leaves: Opposite, with stipules, circular to semi-circular in outline, divided about 2/3 of the way to the base into 5-7 blunt lobes.
Flowers: Reddish purple, actinomorphic hermaphrodite, 20 mm across, in pairs; sepals and petals both 5 and free, petals notched at tip; stamens 10; ovary superior.
Fruits: A dry, minutely hairy and smooth 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: Roadsides.Distribution: Very local.

Native status: Not native
Of conservation interest: No


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