{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{speciesbox |image = Geranium phaeum Bodziszek żałobny 03.jpg |genus = Geranium |species = phaeum |authority = L. }}
'''''Geranium phaeum''''', commonly called '''dusky crane's-bill''',<ref name=BSBI07>{{BSBI 2007|accessdate=2014-10-17}}</ref> '''mourning widow''' or '''black widow''', is a herbaceous plant species in the family Geraniaceae.<ref>{{GRIN | accessdate = 16 January 2018}}</ref> It is native to southern, central, and western Europe, and is cultivated as a garden subject. It has dark violet colored flowers.<ref name=Phillips1993>{{Citation | last1 = Phillips | first1 = Ellen | last2 = Colston Burrell | first2 = C. | year = 1993 | title = Rodale's illustrated encyclopedia of perennials | pages = 373–76 | isbn = 0875965709 | publisher = Rodale Press| location = Emmaus, Pa.}}</ref> It is unmistakable with dark purple petals turned backwards and with conspicuous projecting stamens and style. Petals crinkly-edged and pointed. Leaves often blotched brown.
The cultivar 'Our Pat' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/181281/Geranium-phaeum-Our-Pat/Details | title = ''Geranium phaeum'' 'Our Pat' | publisher = RHS | accessdate = 14 July 2020}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} * ''A Concise Guide to The Flowers of Britain and Europe'', Oleg Polunin, Oxford University Press, paperback reprint 1987, {{ISBN|0-19-217630-7}}
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phaeum Category:Plants described in 1753 Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Geraniaceae-stub}}