Rock Crane's-bill - Geranium macrorrhizum

Height about 40cms and with underground rhizomes. It usually has rich pink flowers and aromatic leaves, but there are also many garden varieties of different colours. This is one of many cultivated plants that escapes into the wild and persists, at least for a time. These cultivated plants may have many different varieties or cultivars, and hybridisation is common so our images of garden escapes can only be said to be representative of the species.

Usually seen as a garden escape close to habitation.  It will tolerate open sunlight and partial shade.

Flowers May to July.

Herbaceous perennial.

Scatterd records from across much of Britain.

Uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.