Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : germo
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Geraniaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: dove's-foot crane's-bill
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Weicher Storchschnabel ; ES : geranio de los caminos ; FR : géranium mou ; IT : geranio volgare ; PT : bico-de-pomba-menor ; EN : dove's-foot crane's-bill ; NL : zachte ooievaarsbek ; DK : blod storkenæb
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons reniform.
- Leaves entire, rounded, with distal teeth.
- Height: 10-50 cm.
- Stem prostrate or ascending, few branched, with hairs sometimes erect, long, very thin, smooth and sometimes short, but often glandular above.
- Leaves lower in rosette. Lower cauline leaves opposite, upper alternate, palmately divided. The upper sessile rounded in outline but lobed. Lobes entire on the first leaves and 3-lobed in the later leaves. Stipules reddish, deltoid and hairy at the base of the petiole.
- Flowers purplish or pink small, mostly on 2-flowered peduncle, gathered in a big tendrilled inflorescence. Sepals acute, mucronate (less than 1 cm). Petals longer than the sepals, cordate, emarginate, ciliate on the unguis.
- Fruit : with valves, transversely wrinkled, glabrous ; slightly downy sutures and beak.
- Plant with a smell of Indian ink.
- Risk of confusion with Geranium rotundifolium L. and Geranium pusillum L.
- Biological type: Annual.
Mistake with: Geranium rotundifolium , Geranium pusillum
Ecological profile (click on flags):
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