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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

Family

Geraniaceae

Authority

Geranium pusillum Burm.f.

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

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