glad you’re feeling good about your id, william!
William Kellogg wrote:
Geranium is the genus
"Wild" and "cranesbill" are the botanical names
this distinction makes no sense to me. the binomial of genus and species is generally what is referred to as a botanical (or scientific) name. ‘wild’ and ‘cranesbill’ are common names. none of that changes the fact that cranesbill is a kind of wild Geranium.