Black widow
Geranium phaeum L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Geraniaceae
Also called Dusky crane's-bill, Mourning widow
Formerly Geranium austriacum, Geranium fuscum, Geranium hungaricum, Geranium lividum, and 3 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
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- EuropeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- Purple, violetRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Belarusian
- Герань цёмна-бурая
- Bulgarian
- кафяв здравец
- Catalan
- Gerani obscur
- Czech
- kakost hnědočervený
- Welsh
- Gweddw alarus
- Danish
- Bølgekronet Storkenæb, Mørk Storkenæb
- German
- Brauner Storchschnabel
- Finnish
- tummakurjenpolvi
- French
- géranium brun, Géranium brun, Géranium livide
- Upper Sorbian
- Bruna pyskawa
- Italian
- Geranio stellato
- Dutch
- donkere ooievaarsbek, Donkere ooievaarsbek, Donkere Ooievaarsbek
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, CC BY 2.5
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