Scientific name: | Geranium tuberosum L. | |
Common name: | Bulbous Crane's-Bill, Tuberous wild geranium crane's-bill | |
Hebrew name: | גרניון הפקעות | |
Arabic name: | الغرنوقي الدرني , Gharnook askouli | |
Family: | Geraniaceae, גרניים |
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Life form: | Batha, Phrygana | |
Stems: | 15-30 cm; tuberous rhizome; solitary, branched above; hairy | |
Leaves: | Alternate, rosette, dissected | |
Inflorescence: | Cymes, branched clusters | |
Flowers: | Pink, Purple; darker veins | |
Fruit / pods: | Carpels, elongated beaked capsules or schizocarps | |
Flowering Period: | February, March, April, May | |
Habitat: | Batha, Phrygana | |
Distribution: | Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon | |
Chorotype: | Euro-Siberian - Med - Irano-Turanian | |
Summer shedding: | Ephemeral |
Derivation of the botanical name: Geranium, from Greek γέρανος geranos, a crane; in allusion to the long beak of the carpels. tuberosum, tuber, a lump, tumor, hump; tuberous. The Hebrew word: גרניון, geranion.
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