Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Cut-leaved Crane's-bill, Geranium dissectum, Crobh giobach
Photographs: Co. Cork

Cut-leaved Crane's-bill
Geranium dissectum
Crobh giobach
Family: Geraniaceae

Flowering time: April-August. Annual. Native.

Small pink flowers with notched petals and 10 stamens are followed by hairy fruit with netted seeds. Leaves are deeply divided nearly to base and the lobes are deeply sub-lobed. Stalked glands on upper parts. Erect to procumbent growth, height/spread to 60 cm

Frequent on roadsides, waste ground and hedgebanks.

Similar: Doves-foot Crane's-bill, G. molle has lobed, rounded, lower leaves with longer hairs on stem and leaves.

Cut-leaved Crane's-bill, Geranium dissectum, Crobh giobach

Cut-leaved Crane's-bill, Geranium dissectum, Crobh giobach
Cut-leaved Crane's-bill, Geranium dissectum, Crobh giobach

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