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Geranium family, Geraniaceae
Storkenebbfamilien
This new geranium colour is very pretty. Among the geraniums I'm taking care of in the lobby of our building. I'm the gardener in our apartment block...
Geranium lucidum L.
Shining Crane's-bill, DE: Gläzender Storchschnabel
Slo.: bleščeča krvomočnica
Dat.: May 16. 2016
Lat.: 46.35133 Long.: 13.69344
Code: Bot_957/2016_DSC2154
Habitat: semiruderal road side, next to river bed, calcareous, sandy ground; partly shady, humid place (air and ground); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 520 m (1.700 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.
Substratum: soil.
Place: Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soča and Trenta, between main road to Vršič pass and river Soča, next to Trenta 46 farmhouse, East Julian Alps, Posočje, Slovenia EC.
Comment: Geranium lucidum is a Mediterranean plant growing in the whole Mediterranean region but also outside it. In the Alps one can find it in their far west part, on their south edge in north Italy around Bergamo and in their extreme northeast part in Niederösterreich, where it is extremely rare and facing extinction (Ref.6). It grows also in Apennines, Pyreneans and Carpathians as well as in Balkan mountains. It grows from low land to montane elevations (Ref.2).
To my knowledge this find seems to be the first in the Julian Alps. Flora Alpina (2004) Ref.2 doesn't refer presence of Geranium lucidum in Slovenian Alps. Also Slovenian key (2007), Ref.3 and Gradivo za Atlas, Ref.4 does not show its presence in Alpine phytogeographical region of Slovenia. The closest reference I found is in Nuovo Atlante... (2002), Ref.5 where it has been found in UTM square 6746 in Outer Julian Prealps near Tarcento, Italy. The site is still quite far from this location.
The habitat of this find is mostly semi-ruderal; just next to the main asphalt road from town Bovec to Vršič pass, around the abandoned farmhouse Soča 46 and on a large pile of rocks gathered together during cleaning grassland around the farmhouse. It is almost sure that the site is sub-spontaneous, although I have no idea how could the plants come to this place. First World War with its two years of fixed front line crossing the region, which provenly introduced several new species to Slovenia through huge quantities of hay for army horses brought in from all parts of Austro-Hungarian empire, could hardly be an explanation. The plant is not showy and is considered a weed in horticulture, so nobody would plant it intentionally. The most probable way seems to be to be introduced by other garden plants, which still grow 'wild' around the abandoned house.
The population is large counting several hundred flowering plants in a region of about 100 x 40 m.
Ref.:
(1) Identification confirmed by Dr. Igor Dakskobler, Natural History Institute Jovan Hadži, SAZU.
(2) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 1060.
(3) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 350.
(4) N. Jogan (ed.), Gradivo za Atlas flore Slovenije (Materials for the Atlas of Flora of Slovenia), CKSF (2001), p 179
(5) L. Poldini, Nuovo Atlante corologico delle piante vascolari nel Friuli Venezia Giulia, University of Trieste (2002), p 227.
(6) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 412.
Nikon D700 / Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
From my set entitled “Cranesbill”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranium
Geranium is a genus of 422 species of flowering annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as the cranesbills. It is found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region. These attractive flowers will grow in any soil as long as it is not waterlogged. Propagation is by semi-ripe cuttings in summer, by seed or by division in autumn or spring.
The species Geranium viscosissimum is considered to be protocarnivorous.
The name "cranesbill" derives from the appearance of the seed-heads, which have the same shape as the bill of a crane. The genus name is derived from the Greek γέρανος, géranos, or γερανός, geranós, crane. The long, palmately cleft leaves are broadly circular in form. Their rose, pink to blue or white flowers have 5 petals.
Cranesbills are eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Brown-tail and Mouse Moth.
Confusingly, "geranium" is also the common name of members of the genus Pelargonium, which were formerly classified in the cranesbill genus. In the United States, true Geraniums are frequently distinguished from the less hardy Pelargoniums as (rather redundantly) "hardy geraniums" by gardeners and in the horticultural trade. One can make the distinction between the two by looking at the flowers: Geranium has symmetrical flowers, while Pelargonium has irregular or maculate petals. Other former members of the genus are now classified in genus Erodium, including the plants known as filarees in North America.
Each year the Perennial Plant Association (PPA), a trade group that works to educate gardeners on great performing perennial plants, selects their Perennial Plant of the Year© . In 2008 the honor goes to a Geranium 'Rozanne'.
A terrific species closely related to tuberosum. Both are Mediterranean winter-green species that spend the summer as dormant tubers and flower relatively early. Malviflorum, with these large (nearly 2 inches across) mauve flowers is easily the better of the two.
Wiesen-Storchschnabel (Geranium pratense) im Naturschutzgebiet Bachwiesen/Leopoldswiesen im Hockenheimer Rheinbogen
Location: Vrindavan West
Geranium californicum
Genus: Geranium Species: californicum Variety: Cultivar:
Common name(s): California Geranium .
California Geranium is a perennial, pink flowers, June-July, damp meadows, high elevations, Sierra Nevada, a rock garden subject, has flourished here with reg. water, very hardy. It is very delicate with pretty leaves, very beautiful, when the pink flowers bloom in the late spring.