Cut-leaved cranesbill
Geranium dissectum
Family · Geraniaceae · Harmless
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The cranesbill with leaves so deeply cut they look divided into fine strips, with small dark purple-pink flowers. It is among the commonest in fields and verges across the Peninsula.
Fields and pasture · Roadsides and waste ground · Town and roadside · Scrubland
Also known ascutleaf geranium
How to tell it
Leaves divided into five to seven segments which divide again into narrow strips, nearly to the base. Small flowers, seven to ten millimetres, dark purple-pink, in pairs on a short stalk. The fruit is the family's typical stork's bill, coiling into a spiral as it dries and flinging the seed.
What it is confused with
No dangerous lookalikes known in the Iberian Peninsula.
What it is for
No use. It is worth it as the Peninsula's most finely cut cranesbill, and so the best for practising the difference between cranesbill and storksbill: cranesbill leaves are divided in a circle from one point, storksbill leaves in pairs along an axis.