Wood Cranesbill

Wood cranesbill has attractive purple flowers and as its name suggests it is a flower of the woodlands. However it also survives, quite happily, within traditional hay meadows. Only the best meadows still have wood cranesbill and there are a few in Northumberland National Park.

Cranesbills are part of the geranium family, and get their name because when the petals have fallen, the flower-head looks like the head and beak of a crane - the bird, that is!