Geranium columbinum L.
First record: WW Newbould, 1857
Geranium folio Malvae rotundo....sive Columbinus. Dove's-foot or Dove's-foot Cranesbill. This is common about Oxford, but not about London or Cambridge. The petals are entire. Martyn,1732,1:279.
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Melbourn, WM Palmer ann.Bab; Dr Palmer also reports this Geranium from melbourn, Evans,1939,59.
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Beside cornfield, Great Eversden, 334.536, RGH Cant, 23.6.1994.
Once found, in 1857, in a cultivated field at Harlton; WW Newbould. Bab.1860,46; Harlton, 1857; WWN. only found once in a cultivated field. Bab.MS.Fl.1.148.
Field Road, near Hardwick Wood, H Gilbert-Carter, 23.7.1926, CGE; By the side of a field track near Hardwick Wood, H Gilbert Carter, AH Evans etc. 1928; Just eighty years ago a specimen was found by Newbould in a cultivated field at Harlton. Not until 1926 was this Geranium recorded again from the county; but then H Gilbert-Carter, while heading a Botany School expedition to Hardwick Wood, pointed out to the author several plants in a drove leading to the wood. Evans,1939,59; Edge of arable field near Hardwick Farm, 355.572, SM Walters, 7.1952.
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Railway cinders opposite Clare sports ground, 458.562, JL Jarvis, conf. PF Yeo, 1976.
Old railway, Long Road, 457.561- 457.559, abundant, GMS Easy, 13.10.1977; PF Yeo, 1997.
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Introduced to Milton garden 1972, but soon becoming a persistent and spreading weed, GMS Easy, 1999.
Old St Ives railway, 472.609, GMS Easy, 2001.
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Babraham, 513.490, GMS Easy, 1977.
Pampisford old railway, DA Wells & G Crompton, 11.7.1997, [R].
Old railway, Sawston, 508.493, GMS Easy, 7.1972.
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Has also been once found in a cultivated field at Fulbourn. Bab.ann.46.
Field near Little Wilbraham River, K 22, EF Warburg, 1935.
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c. 40 plants on slope of Devil's Ditch, on SE arable edge, between Burwell & bypass, AC Leslie, 15.5.1984; Devil's Ditch, 590.639, edge of bank and set aside, by FP steps, MJ O'Leary, 8.6.1994, [R].
Quy, EF Warburg, 23.5.1935, CGE.
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Olmsted Green, 2 or 3 plants at field edges 627.413 and Rsv, 629.410, FE Wrighton, 1980.
Old railway, Shudy Camps, ME Smith, 1974; one plant, G Crompton, 1975.
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Sandpit near Chippenham, D Dupree, 3.6.(no year); 68-68-, MO Hill, 1966.
Chippenham gravel pit, [west side of A.11], with Herniaria glabra, G Crompton & JE Raven, 1974; GMS Easy, 1977; one plant only in fairly dense vegetation, 687.690, EM Hyde, 19.8.1981; on top of bank parallel to A.11 between pines and steep bank, several plants in flower, EM Hyde, 1985.
N verge of A.11/45 just west of Chippenham bridge 658.660, and 676.689, steep bank of west side of A.11 & N side of A.45, M Crewe, 1993.
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Waste ground, Fordham, 618.715, AC Leslie, 1977; 67A, GMS Easy, 619.715-625.717, GMS Easy, 1977; Fordham, GMS Easy, 1999, [R].
