Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : gerrt
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Geraniaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: round-leaved crane's-bill
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Rundblättriger Storchschnabel ; ES : ; FR : géranium à feuilles rondes ; IT : geranio malvaccino ; PT : gerânio-peludo ; EN : round-leaved crane's-bill ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons reniform.
- Leaves entire, rounded, with distal teeth.
- Height: 10-40 cm.
- Leaves lower in rosette, alternate, orbicular, hairy, long-stalked. Leaves palmately divided with 7-9 lobes and a red gland at the base of the lobes. Lower cauline leaves opposite, upper alternate, yellow-green, rounded, 1-2 cm broad. Short and smooth or glandular hairs in the upper part of the plant. Stipules ovate -lanceolate.
- Flowers pink, small, petals with a rounded tip, shorter than the sepals. 2-flowered peduncle. Sepals spreading, mucronate.
- Fruit long and narrow, divided in 5 filiform mericarps with mostly erect hairs and a more or less glandular beak.
- Plant astringent, vulnerary and resolvent when fresh; used against sore throat, bleeding, nephritis and bruises.
- Frequency increasing in crops.
- Risk of confusion with Geranium molle L. and Geranium pusillum L.
- Biological type: Annual.
Mistake with: Geranium molle , Geranium pusillum
Ecological profile (click on flags):
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