Geranium rotundifolium, Round-leaved geranium,
Round-leaved crane's bill, גרניון עגול
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| | Scientific name: |
| Geranium rotundifolium L. |
| Common name: |
| Round-leaved geranium, Round-leaved crane's bill |
| Hebrew name: |
| גרניון עגול |
| Family: |
| Geraniaceae, גרניים |
Date Picture Taken: March 22, 2008
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| | Life form: |
| Annual |
| Leaves: |
| Alternate, dissected once, dentate or serrate |
| Flowers: |
| Pink |
| Flowering Period: |
| February, March, April |
| Habitat: |
| Batha, Phrygana |
| Distribution: |
| Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon |
| Chorotype: |
| Euro-Siberian - Med - Irano-Turanian |
| Summer shedding: |
| Ephemeral |
Date Picture Taken: March 22, 2008
Derivation of the botanical name:
Geranium, Greek geranos, a crane; in allusion to the long beak of the carpels.
rotundifolium, rotundus, round, spherical; with round leaves.
- The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book XXVI. 108: 'Geranion is called by some myrrhis and by others myrtidas. It resembles hemlock, but with smaller leaves and shorter in the stem, round, and of a pleasant taste and smell. In this way, it is described by our Roman authorities; but Greeks say that it has leaves a little lighter in colour than those of the mallow, thin stems, and downy, with branches at intervals and two spans long; on them are the leaves, among which on the tips of the stems are miniature small heads of cranes.'
Date Picture Taken: March 22, 2008
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