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Geranium pratense (Victor Reiter Group) Black Beauty

 
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Geranium pratense (Victor Reiter Group) Black Beauty - pig-yr-aran y weirglodd, meadow cranesbill [Black Beauty]
Image: Moore, Dawn - NBGW
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Common name: pig-yr-aran y weirglodd, meadow cranesbill [Black Beauty]
Family: Geraniaceae (Geranium)
Synonym: Geranium 'Black Beauty'
Distribution: Gardd/Garden
Hardiness: (H7) Very hardy. < -20°C (USDA 6a-1)
Life form: Herbaceous perennial • Perlysiau lluosflwydd
Geirdarddiad / Etymology: Geranium (jer-AY-nee-um): Crane, refers to the shape of the fruit resembling the head of a crane.
Geirdarddiad / Etymology: pratense (pray-TEN-see): Of the meadows.
Description: A clump-forming perennial growing to about 45-60cm tall with deeply-divided leaves strongly flushed, purple. Lavender blue, cup-shaped flowers 3.5-4.5cm across with gappy petals and faint pale veins are borne on reddish flower stalks with scarlet bracts beneath each flower, in early to late summer.
Links: Royal Horticultural Society

Locations

  • 1: • Accession: 2020-0308 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
  • 2: • Accession: 2012-0482 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
  • 3: • Accession: 2012-0482 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
  • 4: • Accession: 2020-0308 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
  • 5: • Accession: 2012-0482 (2)‎ • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
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