Round-leaved cranesbill
Geranium rotundifolium
Family · Geraniaceae · Harmless
The round-leaved pink geranium that grows at wall bases, pavement shade and forgotten beds. It differs from dove's-foot cranesbill by a two-millimetre detail: the petals have no notch.
Walls and rocks · Town and roadside · Roadsides and waste ground · Fields and pasture
Also known asroundleaf geranium
How to tell it
Rounded leaves with broad shallow lobes, often reddish along the margin. Pink flowers with entire, rounded petal tips. The whole plant is sticky to the touch, more than hairy.
What it is confused with
Dove's-foot cranesbill
Geranium molle
The petals: entire here, heart-notched on dove's-foot. And the touch: this is sticky, the other velvety.
Open sheet →What it is for
No relevant use. It is one of the plants that best shows how botany works: two species identical at ten metres and different at ten centimetres.