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Herb-Robert
Geranium robertianum
46.2788, 6.15011
Field Notes
Description:
Some 40 to 50 cm tall herbaceous plant, with deeply dissected leaves. It also produces erect flowering stems, often reddish, with small (not more than 14 - 15 mm in diameter), pink, five-petaled terminal flowers.
Habitat:
A very common plant in woodlands of Europe. Here, observed in a Natural Reserve of Bois du Faisan, on banks of a river in a mainly deciduous-tree forest close to Geneva.
Notes:
The Robert-Herb is reputed edible; and finds many uses as medicinal plant - as a herbal tea, it was used as a treatment against dysentery and some internal hemorrhages. Its essential oil is antiseptique. The plant was also used against the toothache, and in controlling the diabetes...
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Geranium robertianum - Wikipedia
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PublishedMay 7, 2018
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