Meadow Crane's-bill
Geranium pratense L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 75 cm
- wide
- 99 cm
Geraniaceae
Formerly Geranium acknerianum, Geranium affine, Geranium batrachioides, Geranium clarkei, and 14 more
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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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
- Europe to Amur and HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 99 cmRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; Wikipedia 1–1 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 草原老鸛草
- Chinese
- 老鹳草, 血见愁老鹳草, 草原老鹳草
- Arabic
- غرنوقي مرجي
- Bashkir
- Туғай яраны
- Bulgarian
- син здравец
- Catalan
- Agulles, Candelers, Forquetes
- Czech
- kakost luční
- Welsh
- Pig-yr-aran y weirglodd
- Danish
- Eng-Storkenæb
- German
- Wiesen-Storchschnabel, Wiesenstorchschnabel
- Canadian English
- meadow geranium
- Spanish
- geranio de prado, geranio quinto, pico de cigüeña quinto
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Geranium pratense (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.