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Pink meadow cranesbill. One of the loveliest of the wildflowers of britain and ireland geranium pratense flowers are usually violet blue and sometimes a very deep blue on chalky soil but pink and even pure white specimens are also seen occasionally. To 1 feet high 2 feet wide deeply divided leaves and an abundance of lilac pink 1 to 112 inches wide flowers in spring. Or 2 5 cm but abundant and rise atop mounds of deeply lobed medium green leaves. It enjoys a chalky soil and its latin adjunct partense means of the meadow where it is mostly found though it has also spread to road sides and hedgerows.
The flower is usually lilac blue but paler blue pink white and even darker blues can be found depending on soil conditions. Album has white blooms. It can grow up to 60 cm around two feet in height and has deeply lobed toothed leaves. 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.
Find help information on geranium pratense meadow cranesbill from the rhs. Pink meadow sales department. Please contact us for assistance or with any questions you may have. Native to eastern north america.
By any other name this hardy garden classic is not to be confused with pelargonium. Flowers are small 1 in. This geranium may even rebloom in late summer or fall if the plant is cut back after the first flush of blooms. Cranesbill is a perennial plant from the genus geranium and belongs to the geraniaceae family.
Geranium pratense the meadow crane s bill or meadow geranium is a species of flowering plant in the family geraniaceae native to europe and asia. The only commonly cultivated native cranesbill. The flowers have five petals and are pink or purple but white flower varieties of the species occur. We are here to make your shopping experience truly pleasurable.
Tall with finely cut leaves forming a dramatic mound geranium pratense meadow cranesbill is a clump forming perennial with abundant clusters of large saucer shaped blue or violet flowers from late spring to mid summer. Forming a clump roughly 1 m 3 3 ft tall and broad it is a herbaceous perennial with hairy stems and lax saucer shaped blooms of pale violet.