Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : gerdi
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Geraniaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: cut-leaved crane's-bill
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Schlitzblättriger Storchschnabel ; ES : agujas ; FR : géranium à feuilles découpées ; IT : geranio sbrandellato ; PT : coentrinho ; EN : cut-leaved crane's-bill ; NL : slipbladige ooievaarsbek ; DK : kloftet storkenæb
Biological type: Annual, Biennial
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- Cotyledons reniform.
- Leaves entire, rounded, with distal teeth.
- Height: 10-40 cm. Plant hairy with a developped principal root.
- Stem with distal downwardly directed hairs but not appressed.
- Leaves lower in rosette. Lower cauline leaves opposite, upper alternate, deeply divided roughgly hairy on both sides, long-stalked, palmatisect with narrow (1.5-3 mm) and acute straps.
- Flowers purplish, small, short-peduncled (5-15 mm), notched petals shorter than the calyx. Inflorescence mostly 2-flowered, gathered in a big tendrilled inflorescence.
- Fruit : 1 smooth valve, long, narrow, divided in 5 filiform one-seeded mericarps, with glandular erect hairs on the beak.
- Plant of which underground part was used as food in the past. Used as gargle in sore throat, against bleeding, nephritis, bruises.
- Risk of confusion with Geranium columbinum L.
- Biological type: Annual or biennial.
Mistake with: Geranium columbinum
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