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).
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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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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
edit- ^ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.
- ^ "AGM Plants - Ornamental" (PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 42. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ "RHS Plantfinder - Geranium (Cinereum Group) 'Ballerina'". Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ "RHS Plantfinder - Geranium Blue Sunrise = 'Blogold'". Retrieved 2 March 2018.
- ^ "RHS Plantfinder - Geranium subcaulescens 'Giuseppe'". Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ "RHS Plantfinder - Geranium (Cinereum Group) Rothbury Gem = 'Gerfos'". Retrieved 1 March 2018.
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