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Geranium pusillum

Hanmer Springs.<br>Photographer: Melissa Hutchison, Date taken: 17/11/2023, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Pareora Valley, South Canterbury.<br>Photographer: Melissa Hutchison, Date taken: 15/11/2020, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

small-flowered cranesbill

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Flower colours

Violet/Purple

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Geranium

Family

Geraniaceae

Authority

Geranium pusillum Burm.f.

Endemic genus

Endemic family

Ecology

Year naturalised

1926

Origin

Europe, temperate West Asia eastwards to Himalaya

Other information

Etymology

geranium: From the Greek geranos ‘crane’, the fruit of the plant resembling the head and beak of this bird, hence the common name cranesbill.

pusillum: Insignificant, weak

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

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