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Geranium pusillum
Small-flowered Crane's-bill
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0616 0493 (2016-06-07)Copyright © 2016 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo May 29, 2016
latitude 46.35055 longitude 13.69215
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location
Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soča and Trenta, near abounded farm house Soča 46, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)notes Slo.: pritlična krvomočnica - Habitat: grassland on an old alluvial terrace, near a farmhouse, occasionally mowed, locally flat terrain, shallow, colluvial, calcareous ground, open and sunny place (as much as the narrow valley allows - 5 hours/day of sun max during summer), elevation 530 m (1.750 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil Place: Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soča and Trenta, near abounded farm house Soča 46, East Julian Alps, Posočje, Slovenia EC. Comment: Geranium pusillum is another small flowered, inconspicuous representative of otherwise in horticulture highly esteemed genus of Crane's-bills (Geranium). It is a common plant preferring base and nutrients rich ground. It is widely distributed in Europe and southwest Asia from lowland to high montane elevations. Geranium pusillum has rather pale colored flowers. They are the smallest, in our flora (counting 20 different species and subspecies growing wild), which have 5-8 mm in diameter only. No wonder, compared to for example to Bloody Crane's-bill (Geranium sanguineum) with its intensive blood-red over 4 cm large flowers, it is considered as 'weed' too. Ref.: (1) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 1060. (2) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 351. (3) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 578. (4) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 412.camera Nikon D700/Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
contributor's ID # Bot_965/2016_DSC2669 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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Small-flowered Crane's-bill (photographer)
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