Geraniaceae
Geranium molle
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Dovesfoot Cranesbill on:
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Dovefoot Geranium or Awnless Geranium
Range & Origin: Originally a European wildflower. It has long been naturalized in the United States, it is found from coast to coast
The flowers of Dove's-foot Crane's-bill look like teency pink ten-petalled lilac-pink daisies, but if you look closely, they have "obdurate petals" meaning each petal looks like two, & if you plucked one of these petals, it is heart-shaped; there are really only five of these petals per flower |
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What's This?
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Cranesbill Order |
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Main, Real, Two First-Leaves (Dicots) |
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Real, Two First-Leaves (Dicots) |
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Half Capsule Seed Division |
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Magnolia Division |
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Multiple Spore Sub-Kingdom |
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Multicellular Land Plants |
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It is found by experience to be singularly good for wind cholic, as also to expel the stone and gravel in the kidneys. The decoction thereof in wine, is an excellent good cure for those that have inward wounds, hurts, or bruises, both to stay the bleeding, to dissolve and expel the congealed blood, and to heal the parts, as also to cleanse and heal outward sores, ulcers and fistulas; and for green wounds, many do only bruise the herb, and apply it to the places, and it heals them quickly. The same decoction in wine fomented to any place pained with the gout, or to joint-aches, or pains of the sinews, gives much ease. The powder or decoction of the herb sinews, gives much ease. The powder or decoction of the herb taken for some time together, is found by experience to be singularly good for ruptures and burstings in people, either young or old.
Culpeper, Nicholas, The English physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. London : Peter Cole, 1652
Dovesfoot Cranesbill
Single Flower
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Dovesfoot Cranesbill
Small flower in hand
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Dovesfoot Cranesbill
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Dovesfoot Cranesbill, Geranium molle |
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