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Geranium pratense (Victor Reiter Group) Black Beauty
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Image: Moore, Dawn - NBGW
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
Area
Individual