Meadow Cranesbill Leaves | Slide Mouse

This species tends to self seed freely and naturalizes very well.

Meadow cranesbill leaves. The leaves are deeply divided into 7 9 lobes and 3 6 inch wide and the flowers are pale blue although getting paler into the centre. The stamens have pink purple stalks with dark purple anthers. The plants have a spreading somewhat mounding habit so those lovely leaves are on full display on specimens that can grow two to three feet tall and wide. More shade causes the foliage to be greener.

This species has a good show of large violet blue cup shaped flowers over a bushy mound of deeply cut green leaves. This clump forming perennial has lobed leaves that are deeply divided. The large purple flowers of meadow crane s bill turn into pointed bill like seed pods that give the plant its common name. By any other name this hardy garden classic is not to be confused with pelargonium.

Pratense is a. Flowers are cup shaped violet blue and held in loose sprays overtop of the foliage in late spring and early summer. The leaves are almost fern like divided into deeply dissected lobes. Lavender blue flowers bloom beginning in late spring.

Meadow cranesbill common cranesbill crowfoot meadow geranium wild geranium. Performs best in full sun or part shade in well drained soils. Tall 60 90 cm and 24 30 in. A mounding plant the dark green leaves have a light citrusy fragrance and a broadly circular shape with five petaled flowers in shades of blue pink purple and white.

This is unique among the hardy cranesbills being valued mostly for its stunning display of foliage. Geranium pratense other common names meadow cranesbill common cranesbill crowfoot meadow geranium wild geranium see more family geraniaceae genus geranium can be annuals biennials and perennials herbaceous or evergreen with rounded usually palmately lobed. Deeply cut plum purple leaves emerge in spring and stay true to color throughout the season. 1 230 470 the border selections of cranesbill geranium are valuable fillers for colour in early to mid summer.

Grows up to 2 3 ft. Leaves are large and deeply cut with a rich purple shading in the spring later fading more to green as the plants begin to bloom. Full shade is. Midnight reiter grows to only about 6 or 8 inches tall and twice as wide.

Meadow cranesbill plants have a basal rosette of opposite long stalked leaves above which arise several blunt edged hairy stems branch occasionally and have short stalked or stalkless 7 to 9 lobed palmate leaves that are deeply cut sharply toothed and have pointed tips.