Shining Crane's-bill
Shining Crane's-bill - Geranium lucidum
Description
Short almost hairless plant: stems erect to ascending. Leaves shining green, often flushed with red, rounded in outline divided to just over half-way into 5 lobes. Fruit hairless. Flowers pink 8-10mm the petals oval, not notched.
ID checklist (your specimen should have all of these features)
Small flowers, shining leaves
Habitat
Shaded rocks, walls and hedgebanks, and an occasional garden weed.
When to see it
May to August.
Life History
Annual.
UK Status
Fairly common throughout Britain as far as southern Scotland, scarcer further north.
VC55 Status
Quite common and probably increasing in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 21 of the 617 tetrads.
Leicestershire & Rutland Map
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