Geranium phaeum Dusky Crane's-bill

A fairly large, bushy, clump-forming, perennial cranesbill which produces maroon flowers with wavy-edged petals in spring. In its native range it is largely a subalpine species in the mountains of Europe, but it was introduced to Britain as a garden plant in the 17th Century and was first recorded in the wild in 1724. It readily establishes itself as a garden throw-out and may appear as well-established clumps in roadside verges, churchyards, railway embankments and waste places where garden rubbish has been dumped and it is now widely distributed as a naturalised throughout Britain. It is uncommon in West Glamorgan.

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