Dove's-foot Crane's-bill
Geranium molle L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 18 cm
- wide
- —
Geraniaceae
Formerly Geranium abortivum, Geranium album, Geranium argenteum, Geranium leiocaulon, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, N. Africa, Europe to W. HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 5 cm to 30 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- Asturian
- llantel de les muries
- Czech
- kakost měkký
- Welsh
- pig yr aran
- German
- Weicher Storchschnabel
- American English
- dovefoot geranium
- Finnish
- pehmytkurjenpolvi
- French
- géranium mollet
- Dutch
- zachte ooievaarsbek, Zachte ooievaarsbek
- Slovenian
- mehka krvomočnica
- Chinese
- 柔毛牻牛兒苗, 软毛老鹳草
- Simplified Chinese
- 软毛老鹳草
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Geranium molle (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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