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Geranium sylvaticum (woodland geranium)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Geranium sylvaticum (wood cranesbill, woodland geranium) is a species of hardy flowering plant in the Geraniaceae family, native to Europe and northern Turkey. The Latin specific epithet sylvaticum means "of woodland", referring to the plant's native habitat, as does its common name "wood cranesbill".
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Bee Flower Color [2]  UV-Blue
Flower Color [2]  Purple
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [3]  Bees, Flies, Lepidoptera
Structure [5]  Herb
Usage [3]  A blue dye is obtained from the flowers; It is violet; Fugitive; A useful and dense ground cover plant, succeeding in deep shade; It needs weeding for the first year or so; Plants should be spaced about 60cm apart each way;
Height [3]  39 inches (1 m)
Width [3]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Light Preference [4]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [4]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [4]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [4]  Moist
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Parasitized by 
Plasmopara pusilla[8]
Podosphaera fugax[8]
Septoria geranii[6]
Uromyces geranii[8]
Venturia geranii[6]

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USDA Plant Profile

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 6Ecology of Commanster
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9"Shedding new light on the diet of Norwegian lemmings: DNA metabarcoding of stomach content", Eeva M. Soininen, Lucie Zinger, Ludovic Gielly, Eva Bellemain, Kari Anne Bråthen, Christian Brochmann, Laura S. Epp, Galina Gussarova, Kristian Hassel, John-André Henden, Siw T. Killengreen, Teppo Rämä, Hans K. Stenøien, Nigel G. Yoccoz, Rolf A. Ims, Polar Biology July 2013, Volume 36, Issue 7, pp 1069-1076
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0