Biology:Geranium cinereum
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Geranium cinereum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Geraniales |
| Family: | Geraniaceae |
| Genus: | Geranium |
| Species: | G. cinereum
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| Binomial name | |
| Geranium cinereum Cav., 1787
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Geranium cinereum, the ashy cranesbill, is a species of flowering plant in the family Geraniaceae, native to the Pyrenees. Growing to 50 cm (20 in) tall and wide, it is a small, deciduous or semi-evergreen perennial usually grown for low ground cover, rockeries or underplanting larger subjects like roses. Leaves are deeply divided and grey-green – whence the Latin specific epithet cinereum "ash-grey".[1] It flowers in summer, with striking black-eyed flowers with black stamens. The plant grows in full sunlight, and is hardy down to −15 °C (5 °F).
In cultivation in the UK the following cultivars in the Cinereum Group have been given a Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit:-[2]
References
- ↑ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.
- ↑ "AGM Plants - Ornamental". Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 42. https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/pdfs/agm-lists/agm-ornamentals.pdf.
- ↑ "RHS Plantfinder - Geranium (Cinereum Group) 'Ballerina'". https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/194563/Geranium-(Cinereum-Group)-Ballerina/Details.
- ↑ "RHS Plantfinder - Geranium Blue Sunrise = 'Blogold'". https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/241922/i-Geranium-i-Font-Face-times-New-Roman-Blue-Sunrise-FONT-Blogold-sup-(PBR)-sup/Details.
- ↑ "RHS Plantfinder - Geranium subcaulescens 'Giuseppe'". https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/262850/i-Geranium-subcaulescens-i-Giuseppii/Details.
- ↑ "RHS Plantfinder - Geranium (Cinereum Group) Rothbury Gem = 'Gerfos'". https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/262700/i-Geranium-i-(Cinereum-Group)-Font-Face-times-New-Roman-Rothbury-Gem-FONT-Gerfos-sup-(PBR)-sup/Details.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q1276293 entry
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