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Geranium columbinum, common name long-stalked crane's-bill [2] or longstalk cranesbill, [3] is a herbaceous annual plant in the family Geraniaceae. Description
The fruit has a hairy body and a style up to 1.5 centimeters long; it can grow to a length of 5mm. The fruit of the plant has long beak-like structures giving the plant its nickname of "Cranesbill." The seed surfaces are finely reticulated. The seeds have pits or depressions in them and are wingless.
Geranium lucidum, commonly known as shining cranesbill [1] or (in North America) shining geranium or shiny geranium, is a herbaceous annual plant of the genus Geranium.It is native to Europe, western Asia and North Africa.
Geranium is a genus of 422 species of annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as geraniums or cranesbills.They are found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, with the greatest diversity in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region.
Geranium macrorrhizum – rock cranesbill, bigroot geranium, Bulgarian geranium, zdravetz; Geranium macrostylum; Geranium maculatum – spotted geranium, wild geranium, wood geranium, spotted cranesbill, wild cranesbill, alum bloom, alum root, old maid's nightcap; Geranium maderense – Madeira cranesbill, giant herb-robert
The genus name is derived from the Greek γέρανος ("géranos"), meaning crane, with reference to the fruit capsule resembling the bird's bill.The specific Latin name sanguineum means 'blood-red'; Linnaeus cites Gaspard Bauhin's 1623 book Pinax theatri botanici as his source for the name, which in turn refers ("sanguinaria radix") to a blood-red root.
It is known as spotted cranesbill or wild cranesbill in Europe, but the wood cranesbill is another plant, the related G. sylvaticum (a European native called "woodland geranium" in North America). Colloquial names are alum root , alum bloom and old maid's nightcap .
Geranium bicknellii is a species of geranium known by the common names Bicknell's cranesbill and northern cranesbill. It is native to much of the northern half of North America, where it can be found in a number of forest and woodland habitats. This is an annual or biennial herb which grows hairy stems up to about half a meter long.