Geranium dissectum

Schlitzblättriger cranesbill (Geranium dissectum )

The Cut- cranesbill (Geranium dissectum ) is an annual plant of the family of Geranium Family.

Features

The Cut- cranesbill is a mostly annual, rarely biennial plant. It has a taproot and reaches heights of growth from 10 to 40, rarely 60 cm. The stems are ascending to erect and branched. They are like the petioles covered with backward, spreading hairs, which are 0.5 to 1 mm long and occasionally glandular.

The basic rosette of leaves at flowering is usually already dried up. The stem leaves are opposite, their petiole 1-9 (rarely 13) cm long. The leaf blade is 2-4 (rarely to 9 ) cm wide, and almost to the base 5 - to 7 -lobed. The portions are two to four columns. The stipules are lanceolate and acuminate.

The partial inflorescences are two flowered and have 0.5 to 3 (rarely 5 ) cm long stems that are usually shorter than the bracts. The flower stems are 0.5 to 1.5 cm long. Both stems and sepals densely covered with 0.2 to 0.8 mm long glandular hairs. The flowers are small with a maximum of 1.5 cm diameter. The sepals are 5-8 mm long, wear a 0.5 to 1.5 mm long awn, which is extended to the fruit time. The petals are 5-6 (rarely 8) mm long, of red-violet color. You are emarginate or notched at the tip of the nail is hairy. The stamens are at most as long as the petals.

The fruit is a dehydration spreader. It is glandular hairy, including Schnabel ( 13 to ) 15 to 18 mm long. Fruit flaps are 3 mm long, the fruit beak 7 to 12 mm. The seeds are punctured smooth and pitted.

The chromosome number is 2n = 22

• Habit
• Postfloraler inflorescence
• Flower

Dissemination and locations

The Cut- cranesbill is native to Europe and still happens in Western Asia. Its area is meridionally to temperat and oceanic. In Central Europe it is a archaeophyte, in Germany it is common in the north but rare.

It grows in fields, along roadsides and in gardens. It occurs especially in moist to moderately dry, loamy, rich soil. He is an outspoken Lehmzeiger. It grows from the colline to the montane altitudinal zone, in Upper Austria he rises to about 1,000 m.

Documents

• Siegmund Seybold (ed.): Schmeil - Fitschen interactive. CD -ROM, Version 1.1, Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6.