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geranium. The beaked seed pods of these flowers resembled the head and beak of a crane, the Greeks thought, and so they named the plant for the crane, geranos in Greek. This family of flowers, containing about 250 species, does not include the very popular common garden geranium (Pelargonium) so widely grown today, which was mistaken for it over the years and so shares its name. Pelargonium, however, is from the Greek for “stork,” an allusion to the shape of its fruit. |