Geranium molle

Soft Cranesbill (Geranium molle )

The Soft Cranesbill (Geranium molle ) is a plant from the family of Geranium Family ( Geraniaceae ).

Description

The Soft Cranesbill is an annual herbaceous plant that reaches the plant height of 10 to 45 cm. It resembles the little cranesbill very. However, its stems and petioles in two rows with about 2 mm long hairs are occupied. There also are located on the plant only a few glandular hairs. The stem leaves are usually arranged opposite one another, their leaf blades are five to nine pieces. There are Stipules present.

The flowers are hermaphrodite standing in pairs, radial symmetry and fünfzählig. The five short- inked, hairy, green sepals are usually 2.5 to 5.5 ( 1-6 ) mm long. The pink to purple - red colored petals are about 3 to 8.5bn ( rarely to 10.5 ) mm long, emarginate deeply and longer than the calyx. The five nectaries form a ring. The scars are purple. The gap fruit is 0.8 to 1.4 cm long. The fruit valves are mostly bare and tender querrunzelig.

Occurrence

The Soft Cranesbill originated in the Mediterranean and sub-Mediterranean area, but is now naturalized in other parts of Europe. He prefers to grow on sunny lawn loose on cultural and fallow land and sand dunes. He is most common on sandy soils in relatively dry waste places and partly disturbed meadows. The plant is also regarded as a cultural followers of man. He is also a spread in parts of West Asia and North America.

Ecology

It is an annual or overwintering sommerannuell. The flowering period extends from May to October. The often vormännlichen flowers are pollinated by Hymenoptera. When the fruit ripens, the fruit dampers with the awns by drying solve suddenly from the center column. The awn rolls while a, separates from the fruit tray and throws this together with the inherent within these seeds away ( Autochorie ) or the seeds remain liable on animals and are carried away in this manner.

Pictures

  • Laubblatt
  • Flower back
  • Immature fruit flaps
  • Habit

Swell

  • Soft Cranesbill. In: FloraWeb.de.
  • Langran Xu, Carlos Aedo: Geranium. In: Wu Zheng -yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (eds.): Flora of China. Volume 11: Oxalidaceae through Aceraceae, Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis, 2008, ISBN 978-1-930723-73-3, pp. 13, (online ) (English).
  • Margot Spohn, Marianne Golte - Bechtle: What flowers there? The Encyclopedia: over 1000 flowering plants in Central Europe. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-440-10326-9.
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