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Meadow cranesbill is a perennial, characteristic of rough grassland such as verges and stream sides and of damp hay meadows and lightly grazed pastures. (Now, doesn't that sound bucolic? 😄)
It prefers but is not exclusive to calcareous soils. A native found throughout most of Great Britain except for the north west of Scotland.
Uses: With stringent, styptic and antiseptic medical properties, Meadow Cranesbill and its close relatives were used to relieve a range of diseases including cholera, diarrhoea and dysentery; to treat nosebleeds, ulcers and haemorrhoids and to staunch bleeding wounds.
Geranium, the genus name, comes from the Greek noun geranos, meaning Crane (birds of the group of species known as the Gruidae). It is a reference to the beak-like fruit (seed capsule) which is reminiscent of the long beak of a Crane. The specific epithet pratense means of the meadow.
From a container on the front porch. There's a very tiny insect on an upper right petal - not sure how well it shows here.
Strangely, this geranium (perlagonium) we bought the other day is called "Blue Wonder"; I wonder why? Nice blossom anyway.
Thousands if not millions of this cushion forming geranium all along the dune systems along the Northumberland coast.