Geranium molle

Geranium molle
Geranium molle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Rosopsida
Order: Geraniales
Family: Geraniaceae
Genus: Geranium
Species: G. molle
Binomial name
Geranium molle
L.

Geranium molle, the Dovesfoot Cranesbill, is an annual herbaceous plant belonging to the Geraniaceae family.

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Description

Geranium molle is a small plant reaching on average 5–30 centimetres (2.0–12 in) in height.[1] It is a very branched plant, quite hairy, with several ascending stems. The leaves are palmate, cut 5 to 9 times. The basal leaves are arranged in a rosette, the upper ones are sessile, rounded and hairy, with a long petiole of about 5–12 millimetres (0.20–0.47 in).[1] The flowers are pinkish-purple, 8-12 mm in diameter, with very jagged petals. It blooms from April to September. The flowers are hermaphrodite and mainly pollinated by Hymenoptera. Fruits are glabrous, usually with 6-9 transverse ridges.[1]

Distribution

It is native to the Mediterranean and sub-Mediterranean areas, but is now naturalized in other parts of Europe, in southwestern and central Asia and in North Africa. It is an introduced species also in North America, where it is known as Dovefoot Geranium or Awnless Geranium. It is a noxious weed in the Pacific Northwest and quickly forms a groundcover on open areas, among grasses, and in planting beds. Glyphosate is an effective control measure.

Habitat

It is found in dry meadows, hedges, banks and waste ground. It prefers sunny places on sandy and relatively dry soils, at an altitude of 0–1,000 metres (0–3,300 ft) above sea level.[1]

Gallery

  • Close-up of a flower of Geranium molle

  • Figure from Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen, 1796

  • Plant of Geranium molle

  • Flowers of Geranium molle

  • The long beak-like column which springs open when ripe and casts the seeds some distance.

  • Leaf of Geranium molle

Medicinal properties

It is found by experience to be singularly good for wind cholic, as also to expel the stone and gravel in the kidneys. The decoction thereof in wine, is an excellent good cure for those that have inward wounds, hurts, or bruises, both to stay the bleeding, to dissolve and expel the congealed blood, and to heal the parts, as also to cleanse and heal outward sores, ulcers and fistulas; and for green wounds, many do only bruise the herb, and apply it to the places, and it heals them quickly. The same decoction in wine fomented to any place pained with the gout, or to joint-aches, or pains of the sinews, gives much ease. The powder or decoction of the herb sinews, gives much ease. The powder or decoction of the herb taken for some time together, is found by experience to be singularly good for ruptures and burstings in people, either young or old.

Culpeper, Nicholas, The English physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. London : Peter Cole, 1652

Synonyms

  • Geranium luganense Chenevard [2]
  • Geranium abortivum De Not. ex Ces.
  • Geranium brutium [b] micranthum N.Terracc.
  • Geranium brutium Gasp.
  • Geranium calabrum Ten.
  • Geranium leiocaulon Ledeb.
  • Geranium x luganense Chenevard
  • Geranium macropetalum (Boiss.) Posp.
  • Geranium molle [a] triviale (A.Terracc.) Gortani & M.Gortani
  • Geranium molle [b] caespitosum (N.Terracc.) Graebn.
  • Geranium molle [b] leiocaulon (Ledeb.) Graebn.
  • Geranium molle [B] pinguis (K.Malý) Graebn.
  • Geranium molle [B] stipulare (Kunze) Graebn.
  • Geranium molle [c] parvulum (Ten.) Graebn.
  • Geranium molle f. albiflorum R.Uechtr.
  • Geranium molle f. annuum (Schur) Gams
  • Geranium molle f. candidum Beck
  • Geranium molle f. pinguis K.Malý
  • Geranium molle f. stipulare (Kunze) K.Malý
  • Geranium molle f. subperenne (Schur) Gams
  • Geranium molle [frm.] glabrata A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle [frm.] pygmaea A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle [frm.] sepincola A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle [frm.] tenuisecta A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle [frm.] trivialis A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle [frm.] villosissima A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle [I] annuum (Schur) Graebn.
  • Geranium molle [I] triviale A.Terrac. ex Graebn.
  • Geranium molle [II] subperenne (Schur) Graebn.
  • Geranium molle [II] tenuisecta (A.Terracc.) Graebn.
  • Geranium molle [l] album (Picard) Graebn.
  • Geranium molle [l] suaveolens (Boenn. ex Rchb.) Graebn.
  • Geranium molle subf. abortiva (De Not. ex Cesati) A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle subsp. brutium (Gasp.) Graebn.
  • Geranium molle subsp. brutium (Gasp.) P.H.Davis
  • Geranium molle subsp. normale A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle subsp. pollinense A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle subsp. sinjaricum Al-Shehbaz & Al-Khakani
  • Geranium molle subsp. stipulare (Kunze) Dostál
  • Geranium molle subsp. stipulare (Kunze) Holmboe
  • Geranium molle subsp. stipulare (Kunze) Soó
  • Geranium molle subsp. villosum (Ten.) A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle subvar. macropetalum (Boiss.) Gams
  • Geranium molle var. abortivum (De Not. ex Ces.) Ces., Pass. & Gibelli
  • Geranium molle var. abortivum (De Not. ex Ces.) Nyman
  • Geranium molle var. album Picard
  • Geranium molle var. annuum Schur
  • Geranium molle var. arenarium A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle var. brutium (Gasp.) K.Malý
  • Geranium molle var. caespitosum N.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle var. caucasicum Regel ex Woronow
  • Geranium molle var. corymbiferum Just.
  • Geranium molle var. diffusum Ten. ex A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle var. elatum Ten. ex A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle var. graecum A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle var. grandiflorum Lange
  • Geranium molle var. grandiflorum Lojac.
  • Geranium molle var. grandiflorum Vis.
  • Geranium molle var. grandiflorum Viv.
  • Geranium molle var. lucanum Gasp. ex Nyman
  • Geranium molle var. macropetalum Boiss.
  • Geranium molle var. maioriflorum Borbás
  • Geranium molle var. maritimum Lojac.
  • Geranium molle var. minus Chevall.
  • Geranium molle var. montanum A.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle var. montanum A.Terracc. ex N.Terracc.
  • Geranium molle var. parvulum Ten.
  • Geranium molle var. stipulare (Kunze) Nyman
  • Geranium molle var. suaveolens Boenn. ex Rchb.
  • Geranium molle var. suaveolens (Boenn. ex Rchb.) Gams
  • Geranium molle var. subperenne Schur
  • Geranium molle var. supinum Fouc. & Jouss.
  • Geranium molle var. typicum Posp.
  • Geranium molle var. villosum (Ten.) Cout.
  • Geranium molle var. vulcanicum A.Terracc.
  • Geranium x oenense Borbás ex Hallier
  • Geranium pollinense N.Terracc. ex A.Terracc.
  • Geranium pseudovillosum Schur
  • Geranium punctatum Kanitz
  • Geranium pyrenaicum subsp. villosum (Ten.) Nyman
  • Geranium stipulare Kunze
  • Geranium villosum var. gracile Sennen
  • Geranium villosum var. villosissimum Ten.
  • Geranium villosum Ten.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Pignatti S. - Flora d'Italia – Edagricole – 1982. Vol. II, pag. 10
  2. ^ Synonyms from Catalogue of life

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