Settle Wildflowers - Day 84 - Red 18 - Cut-leaved Crane's-bill

On Fri 25 Sept at Giggleswick Station I found some Cut-leaved Crane's-bill Geranium dissectum

This is a small crane's-bill - small like Herb Robert, or Shining Crane's-bill or Dove's-foot  Crane's-bill if you know them - I have yet to report on these

This plant has had me puzzled several times over the past few years.

(See lower down) because there are one or two other small crane's-bills it could be

 Here is my picture of the plant at Giggleswick Railway Station: (tarmac area on carpark, towards the south end). I also found some on 8 Aug on the Bypass Bridge  over the Ribble - see lower

Don't you like the way the sepals have a long bristle point with a hydathode (gland) at the end?

N.B. These are close up pictures - the flower is only about 8mm across. 

It is smaller than Herb Robert or Shining Crane's-bill - and much tinier than Meadow Crane's-bill. It is slightly bigger than Dove's-foot Crane's-bill - see my finger nail tips under the fruit pictures lower down

This plant was growing next to it, so is presumably the basal leaves. The basal leaves are less "Cut" than the stem leaves

Geranium dissectum flower at Giggleswick Railway Station

When Muff and Kerry and I were at Norton-le-Clay (50 Miles away (40miles for a crow)  over the A1 at the south end of  VC65) 

We looked at plants near our lunch stop and puzzled.

That evening I looked at plants from near Spa Court in Ripon. The shoots that had flowers the leaved were very divided. But near the base the leaves were much rounder (still divided) and looking very different

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Settle Bypass - Bridge over the Ribble - 6 Aug 2020



Settle Bypass - Bridge over the Ribble - 8 Aug 2020

Helwith Bridge - Slate "spoil" slope - YNU field meeting 23 June 2018

See more flowers on Settle Lockdown Walks -  I am still following a rainbow cycle - ROYGBIV - today with red we just started the firth cycle - well 5.5th because there wasn't a red in the first cycle