Crane's-bill Family

Long-beaked Stork's-bill Geranium brutium Little Robin Geranium brutium



Crane's-bill Family - Geraniaceae

Round-leaved Crane's-bill      Geranium rotundifolium

Native throughout most of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East to Central Asia.

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Dove's-foot Crane's-bill      Geranium molle

Native throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

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Calabrian Crane's-bill      Geranium brutium

Native through southern Europe from France to western Turkey. Frequent in grassy places and roadsides, often forming showy patches in the peloponnese.

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Cut-leaved Crane's-bill      Geranium dissectum

Native throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

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Shining Crane's-bill      Geranium lucidum

Native throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, eastward to India. Often favours shady places.

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Little Robin      Geranium purpureum

Native throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Typically in shady places.

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Mallow-leaved Stork's-bill      Erodium malacoides

Widespread and common throughout the Mediterranean Region and eastward to the Middle East and Asia Minor. Leaves long-petiolate, oblong, undivided or shallowly lobed, serrate. Upper part of plant typically glandular-hairy. Beak of fruit 18-35mm long.

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Three-lobed Stork's-bill      Erodium chium

Native to macaronesia and locally through the Mediterranean Region. Rather rare in Peloponnese. Lower leaves long-petiolate, blade ovate, pinnatifid, with few rounded, bluntly dentate lobes; upper leaves smaller, subsessile, acutely dentate. Upper part of plant typically not glandular-hairy. Beak of fruit 30-40mm long.

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Long-beaked Stork's-bill      Erodium gruinum

Native to the eastern Mediterranean, eastward to Iran.

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Common Stork's-bill      Erodium cicutarium

Native throughout Eurasia and North Africa.

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Musk Stork's-bill      Erodium moschatum

Native from Macaronesia, eastward through the Mediterranean and southern Europe to the Middle East and North-east Africa.

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