Photographs: Macroom, Co. Cork

Round-leaved Cranes-bill Geranium rotundifolium Crobh cruinn Family: Geraniaceae Flowering time: May-September. Annual. Native. Small pink flowers, rounded to slightly retuse at tips. Fruits are hairy an not ridged. Round downy leaves with 5-9 lobes, divided less than halfway to bases. Branched plant with glandular and non-glandular hairs and erect to ascending growth. Height to 35cm Dry walls, grassland, hedgebanks, roadsides, waste ground, urban areas. Rare but increasing. Mainly S and SE Ireland.

Round-leaved Cranes-bill, Geranium rotundifolium, Crobh cruinn