Geranium viscosissimum Fisch. & C.A.Mey.

Sticky purple geranium (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Geraniales > Geraniaceae > Geranium

Characteristics

A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It has hairy glands. The stems are 60 cm tall. The leaves have 3-5 lobes. The leaf stalks are slender. The lobes have coarse teeth. The flowers are in clusters and are reddish-purple. The fruit is a dry capsule with a long beak.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.8
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 1.55
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Open woods and meadows. Plentiful in medium-dry to moist or even wet soils of open woods, roadsides, creek banks and meadows to an altitude of 2,700 metres.
More
It is a temperate plant. It grows in subalpine woodland meadows in the Rocky Mountains.
Light 3-6
Soil humidity 2-4
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 5-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-9

Usage

The flowers are eaten. They are added to salads.
Uses medicinal spice
Edible flowers leaves
Therapeutic use Witchcraft Medicine (flower), Cold Remedy (leaf), Eye Medicine (leaf), Other (leaf), Dermatological Aid (leaf), Unspecified (root), Eye Medicine (root), Gynecological Aid (unspecified), Love Medicine (unspecified), Unspecified (unspecified), Anodyne (unspecified), Breast (unspecified), Burn(Veterinary) (unspecified), Cough(Veterinary) (unspecified), Rhinitis(Veterinary) (unspecified), Swelling (unspecified), Wart (unspecified), Wound(Veterinary) (unspecified), Distemper(Veterinary) (unspecified), Repellant(Insect) (unspecified), Sore(Veterinary) (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) 5
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Geranium viscosissimum leaf picture by Yang Chen (cc-by-sa)
Geranium viscosissimum leaf picture by Clint Grierson (cc-by-sa)
Geranium viscosissimum leaf picture by L H (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Geranium viscosissimum flower picture by Ashley Scholer (cc-by-sa)
Geranium viscosissimum flower picture by Michael Finch (cc-by-sa)
Geranium viscosissimum flower picture by Michael Finch (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Geranium viscosissimum world distribution map, present in Canada and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:322503-2
WFO ID wfo-0000701561
COL ID 6KDCL
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Geranium attenuilobum Geranium canum Geranium nervosum Geranium strigosius Geranium strigosum Geranium viscosissimum var. album Geranium viscosissimum var. nervosum Geranium viscosissimum subsp. nervosum Geranium viscosissimum f. album Geranium viscosissimum f. viscosissimum Geranium viscosissimum var. viscosissimum Geranium viscosissimum