PENCILLED CRANE'S-BILL
Geranium versicolor
Crane's-bill (Geranium) Family [Geraniaceae] 
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Crane's-bill (Geranium) Family [Geraniaceae]
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| 16th June 2006, Beacon Alley, Godshill, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| The flower stands upright reaching about 60cm. |
| 16th June 2006, Beacon Alley, Godshill, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| The flowers are markedly trumpet-shaped (i.e. the petals are curved outwards). |
| 16th June 2006, Beacon Alley, Godshill, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| The 5 anthers are azure coloured and T-bar in shape. The single style is greenish to white, above the anthers and with an elongated-club shaped reddish-pink stigma. The 5 sepal teeth have 3 darker-green veins, taper to a point and splay out from the lower part of the flower. The leaves are 5-lobed and are dissected to between 2/3rds or 4/5ths of the way to the base. |
| 16th June 2006, Beacon Alley, Godshill, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
| The flowers are about 30mm across (±3mm) and have a notch at the apex. The bottom of the notch is curved and not pointed. The veins on the petals are magenta coloured in this specimen. |
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Hybridizes with : French Crane's-bill to produce Druce's Crane's-bill, which has larger flowers, which are coloured pale to deep-pink with either dark veins or not. This is also a garden escapee and is found scattered over the British Isles in grassy places or on waste ground but is rarer than one of its parents (French Crane's-bill). Some similarities to : French Crane's-bill but that has deep-bright-pink flowers. Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature :
No relation to : Fringed Water-Lily [a plant with similar name] Pencilled Crane's-bill is a garden plant which has become naturalised more often in the South West of the UK, rarer in the North.
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 Geranium
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versicolor
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Geraniaceae
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 Geranium (Crane's-bills) |
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Crane's-bill (Geranium) Family [Geraniaceae]
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