Wood Crane's-bill
Geranium sylvaticum L.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 76 cm
- wide
- 61 cm
Geraniaceae
Formerly Geranium angulatum, Geranium argenteum, Geranium eglandulosum, Geranium fastigiatum, and 7 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
- S. Greenland, Europe to Siberia and N. IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 76 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 61 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Purple, blueRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
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 3.0
- 3D model: Geranium sylvaticum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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