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Cut-leaved crane's-bill
Geranium dissectum
Importance
Common in many habitats - increasingly in arable land. Dove's foot Crane's-bill (G. molle) is a very similar species which, like the cut-leaved variety, occurs widely across the British Isles. In dove's foot, the first and subsequent true leaves are not as deeply dissected as in cut-leaved.
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1. Asymmetric cotyledons
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2. Long stems with conspicuous hairs and palmate leaves (like a sycamore tree).
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3. Mature plant showing the deeply divided leaves
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4. Small pinkish-violet flowers with deeply incised petals © Alamy Ltd
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