Shining cranesbill [Shining geranium]

Description: Shining Geranium is a herbaceous annual plant of the genus Geranium native to Europe, western Asia and North Africa. The stems can grow up to 35cm long, brittle fleshy, hairless and often red. Leaves round or kidney-shaped and glossy, palmately-lobed or divided bluntly to about two-thirds of their depth, sometimes with short hairs on the upper surface. Flowers with parts in fives, with sharply keeled sepals and bright pink, rounded petals, some 10mm petals having long bases and flat blades. The fruits are beaked capsules, ridged and slightly hairy, and least on the edges, and splitting open into five parts. The whole plant has a tendency to turn red.

Locations in Campus: Picture taken at the Clarke field.