Wood Crane's-bill
''Geranium sylvaticum'', the wood cranesbill or woodland geranium, is a species of hardiness (plants), hardy flowering plant in the family (biology), family Geraniaceae, native plant, native to Europe and northern Turkey. The Latin Botanical name#Binary name, specific epithet ''sylvaticum'' means "of woodland", referring to the plant's native habitat, as does its common name "wood cranesbill". Description The plant grows to tall by wide, it is a mound-forming herbaceous plant, herbaceous, gynodioecy, gynodioecious perennial plant, perennial with deeply cut and toothed 7-lobed basal leaves. In summer, flowers are borne on stalks with ruffs of leaves. The flower colour ranges from mauve to sky blue, depending on soil conditions. It has 10 stamens and glandular-hairy fruits. Cultivation ''G. sylvaticum'' is one of many Geranium species which are valued in gardens. It is suitable for cultivation in temperateness, temperate climates in reliably moist, lightly shaded positions, as ...
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ...
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