Geranium cinereum
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Geranium cinereum, the ashy cranesbill, is a species of flowering plant in the family Geraniaceae, native to the Pyrenees. Growing to Template:Convert tall and wide, it is a small, deciduous or semi-evergreen perennial usually grown for low ground cover, rockeries or underplanting larger subjects like roses. Leaves are deeply divided and grey-green – whence the Latin specific epithet cinereum "ash-grey".<ref name=RHSLG>Template:Cite book</ref> It flowers in summer, with striking black-eyed flowers with black stamens. The plant grows in full sunlight, and is hardy down to Template:Convert.
In cultivation in the UK the following cultivars in the Cinereum Group have been given a Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit:-<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- 'Ballerina'<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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- 'Giuseppe'<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Rothbury Gem = ‘Gerfos’<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>