Photographs: County Cork |
French Crane's-bill Trumpet-shaped pink flowers, becoming darker with age. Notched petals. Self-seeds. Evergreen leaves are 5-lobed, wrinkled, light-green. Lobes divided into pointed segments. Clump-forming growth, height to 45cm. Prefers well-drained, moderately fertile soil in full sun. Occasionally recorded as garden escape or discard on waste ground, roadsides, dunes, scrub. Similar: Druce's Crane's-bill, G. x oxonianum |
French Crane's-bill. Cork city. September 2008