Marsh cranesbill
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Marsh cranesbill ( Geranium palustre ) |
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The marsh cranesbill ( Geranium palustre ) is a plant from the family of geraniaceae (Geraniaceae).
description
The swamp cranesbill is a perennial herbaceous plant . It blooms from June to September with about three centimeters large, purple flowers , each with five sepals and petals as well as ten stamens . The fruit has the typical cranesbill-like shape.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 28.
distribution
It is native to Central and Eastern Europe. In eastern Germany the species occurs quite frequently, while in the south and west only scattered records and no records at all in the northwestern lowlands are available. As a swamp plant , the swamp cranesbill can be found in bank and tall herbaceous corridors on ditches, streams and ponds as well as on damp to wet meadows. In Central Europe it is a character species of the Filipendulo-Geranietum palustris from the Filipendulion association, but also occurs in societies of the Aegopodion association. In the Allgäu Alps, it rises to an altitude of 1000 meters.
ecology
The self-pollination is excluded. There are many pollinators , especially bee relatives and hoverflies . The swamp cranesbill is a splayed climber that supports itself with its slack, sparsely branched stems between other tall plants. He is not only mobile in the stems and leaf base joints, but can also climb with curved petioles.
The fruit ripens from August. The largest spread of the seeds 2.5 m.
Use in herbal medicine
The " rhizome " contains up to 44% tannins and is used in folk medicine against diarrhea , nosebleeds and gastric catarrh .
literature
- Peter F. Yeo: Geranium: free-range geraniums for gardens and parks , Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-8001-6362-4 .
- Ruprecht Düll , Herfried Kutzelnigg : Pocket dictionary of plants in Germany and neighboring countries. The most common Central European species in portrait. 7th, corrected and enlarged edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-494-01424-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . 8th edition. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 . Page 625–626.
- ↑ Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 2, IHW, Eching 2004, ISBN 3-930167-61-1 , p. 163.
Web links
- Marsh cranesbill. In: FloraWeb.de.
- Profile and distribution map for Bavaria . In: Botanical Information Hub of Bavaria .
- Geranium palustre L. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- Distribution in the northern hemisphere according to Eric Hultén
- Thomas Meyer: Data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia )
