Scientific name: Geranium sanguineum L.
Common name: Bloody Crane's-bill
Description
Habit: A hairy perennial, to 60 cm high, with a woody rhizome.
Stems: Erect, hairy.
Leaves: Opposite, with stipules, circular in outline, divided more than halfway to the base into 5-7-lobes, lobes irregularly further lobed.
Flowers: Reddish-purple, actinomorphic, axillary, hermaphrodite, 25-30 mm across, solitary; sepals and petals both 5 and free, petals rounded; stamens 10; ovary superior.
Fruits: A dry, sparsely 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: Limestone pavement and rocky grassland.Distribution: Abundant on the Burren and Aran Island, almost unknown elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No