Pencilled Crane's bill

Appearance

G. versicolor is a mounded, clump-forming, semi-evergreen perennial with lobed, toothed, light green leaves, occasionally marked with brown, and, in late spring and sporadically until mid-autumn, loose clusters of white, funnel-shaped flowers with magenta veins.
Hairy leaves of pale green with strong internodal blotches; small, strikingly rose-penciled, white flowers with notched petals.

Distribution

Mediterranean/Balkanic but widespread as gardening plant.

Habitat

This rhizomatous perennial herb is a frequent garden escape or throw-out, occurring in grassy places on roadsides and railway banks, in hedge banks and wood-borders, usually close to habitation and showing a strong preference for warm, sheltered, often somewhat shaded situations. Lowland.