cranesbill

/ ˈkreɪnzˌbɪl /

noun

See storksbill, herb Robert
any of various plants of the genus Geranium, having pink or purple flowers and long slender beaked fruits: family Geraniaceae See also herb Robert storksbill

More wonderfully still we see this "working together" in the seeding of the cranesbill.

See the tiny corkscrews of the pink geranium in our meadow (a miniature of its blue brother the cranesbill).

Blue wild geraniums also flourish in patches in the meadows, and sometimes cranesbill and campion.

On and on they slowly drove through the woods, past the big beds of cranesbill, violets, and lilies.

Yet here on Lookout Mountain it seemed almost as much an old friend as the saxifrage or the cranesbill.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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