Geranium core-core

Alderney crane's-bill

Family: Geraniaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Alderney crane's-bill is a naturalized perennial herb found in coastal and inland regions including North Coast, central California Coast, San Francisco Bay Area, western Southern California, and central Peninsular Ranges at elevations below 200 meters in disturbed sites. Flowering from March to October, this plant produces distinctive purple flowers with rounded or slightly notched petals measuring 3.1 to 7.1 millimeters long. Growing with ascending to erect stems 15 to 75 centimeters tall covered in sparse, stiff, reflexed hairs, it has a spreading habit. Its leaves are deeply divided into 5 to 7 broadly wedge-shaped segments, with blades 15 to 56 millimeters wide. The fruit develops mericarp segments 2.6 to 3.2 millimeters long with a narrow beak up to 14.5 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Disturbed sites

Bloom period: Mar-Oct

Elevation: < 200 m

Bioregions: NCo, NCoRO, n SNF, CCo, SnFrB, w SCo, WTR, c PR

California counties: Ventura, Monterey, San Diego, Sonoma, Santa Barbara, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Mendocino, Butte, San Francisco, Humboldt, Marin, Del Norte

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.