Photographs: Co. Cork

French Crane's-bill Geranium endressii Family: Geraniaceae Flowering June-September. Perennial. Garden escape. Trumpet-shaped pink flowers with notched petals, becoming darker with age. Self-seeds. The light green evergreen leaves are 5-lobed and wrinkled, the lobes divided into pointed segments. Clump-forming growth, height to 45cm. Prefers well-drained, moderately fertile soil in full sun. A widespread garden escape or discard on waste ground, roadsides and dunes Similar: Druce's Crane's-bill, Geranium x oxonianum

French Crane's-bill, Geranium endressii