Geranium x magnificum Purple Crane's-bill

A glandular hairy, clump-forming, perennial with large, atractive purple-lilac flowers. It is the sterile triploid hybrid (2n= 42) between Caucasian Crane's-bill (Geranium ibericum Cav.) which is tetraploid (2n=56) and Glandular Crane's-bill (Geranium platypetalum Fisch. & C.A. Mey) which is diploid (2n=28), both of which are native in the Caucasus. It is a popular garden plant with several named varieties although its parents are rarely cultivated. It is widespread in Britain and frequently naturalised on roadsides, railway banks, along waterways and in waste places, invariably as a garden throw-out. It is not as common as Druce's Cranesbill (Geranium x oxonianum) in West Glamorgan.

Neophyte