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Internal ID UUID64401ded5db7d180168240
Scientific name Geranium phaeum
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 681 (1753)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Geranium austriacum Wiesb. ex Hayek Fl. Steiermark 1: 628 (1909)
Geranium fuscum L. Mant. Pl. 1: 97 (1767)
Geranium hungaricum Wiesb. ex Grecescu Consp. Fl. Roman. : 135 (1898)
Geranium lividum L'Hér. Hort. Kew. 2: 434 (1789)
Geranium lividum var. caerulescens Murr Deutsche Bot. Monatsschr. 18: 117 1900
Geranium montanum Bubani Fl. Pyren. 3: 307 1901
Geranium patulum Vill. Hist. Pl. Dauphiné 1: 283 (1786)
Geranium phaeum var. atropurpureum Duftschmid Fl. Oberösterreich 4: 138 1885
Geranium phaeum subsp. austriacum Wiesb. ex Hayek Fl. Steiermark 1: 628 1909
Geranium phaeum var. balcanicum A.Terracc. Malpighia 4: 215 1890
Geranium phaeum f. hungaricum Wiesb. ex Gams Ill. Fl. Mitt.-Eur. 4(3): 1691 1924
Geranium phaeum var. maculatum Schur Enum. Pl. Transsilv. 135 1866
Geranium phaeum var. nodosum Schur Enum. Pl. Transsilv. 135 1866
Geranium phaeum f. pallidum Gortani & M.Gortani Fl. Friulana 2: 299 1906
Geranium planipetalum Chaix Pl. Vapinc. : 22 (1785)
Geranium subcoeruleum Schleich. Cat. Pl. Helv. : s.p. (1800)
Geranium monacense var. anglicum Yeo Hardy Geraniums 188, 167 (1985).
Geranium phaeum var. patulum (Vill.) St.-Lag.
Geranium phaeum var. fuscum (L.) DC.
Geranium phaeum var. lividum (L'Hér.) Pers.
Geranium phaeum subvar. fuscum (L.) Rouy
Geranium phaeum subsp. lividum (L'Hér.) Hayek

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Language Common/alternative name
English dusky crane's-bill
English mourning widow
English black widow
Belarusian Герань цёмна-бурая
Bulgarian кафяв здравец
Catalan gerani obscur
Catalan géranium brun
Czech kakost hnědočervený
Welsh gweddw alarus
Danish bølgekronet storkenæb
Danish mørk storkenæb
German brauner storchschnabel
German géranium brun
Estonian tõmmu kurereha
Finnish tummakurjenpolvi
French géranium brun
French géranium livide
Upper Sorbian bruna pyskawa
Icelandic brúngresi
Italian geranio stellato
Lithuanian géranium brun
Latvian tumšbrūnā gandrene
Dutch donkere ooievaarsbek
Polish bodziszek żałobny
Russian Герань тёмно-бурая
Russian Герань красно-бурая
Slovak pakost hnedočervený
Slovenian rjavordeča krvomočnica
Serbian smeđa iglica
Serbian vilino oko
Serbian Смеђа иглица
Serbian Вилино око
Swedish brunnäva
Swedish géranium brun
Ukrainian Журавець темний
Chinese 暗色老鹳草

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Sow seeds at 20°C, expecting germination within 3 months without further temperature treatment.

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  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Belarus
      • Central European Russia
      • Northwest European Russia
      • Ukraine
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Belgium
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Netherlands
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Great Britain
      • Ireland
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Italy
      • Romania
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • France
      • Spain

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000701052
Tropicos 13900737
INPN 100120
Flora of Italy 2815
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:373470-1
The Plant List kew-2823792
Missouri Botanical Garden 280874
Open Tree Of Life 628145
NCBI Taxonomy 379952
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000003152
IPNI 373470-1
iNaturalist 55756
GBIF 2891390
Freebase /m/05247f2
EPPO GERPH
EOL 992871
Elurikkus 4891
USDA GRIN 408061
Wikipedia Geranium_phaeum

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_036898005.1 ASM3689800v1 Contig The University of Texas at Austin 2024-02-28 6.8 250.71 Mb

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A Global Overview of Diversity and Phylogeny of the Rust Genus Uromyces Gautam AK, Avasthi S, Verma RK, Sushma, Niranjan M, Devadatha B, Jayawardena RS, Suwannarach N, Karunarathna SC J Fungi (Basel) 14-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9224716
doi:10.3390/jof8060633
PMID:35736116
The Effect of the Distance from a Path on Abiotic Conditions and Vascular Plant Species in the Undergrowth of Urban Forests and Parks Kostrakiewicz-Gierałt K, Gmyrek K, Pliszko A Int J Environ Res Public Health 05-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9102423
doi:10.3390/ijerph19095621
PMID:35565008
Gene duplication and rate variation in the evolution of plastid ACCase and Clp genes in angiosperms Williams AM, Carter OG, Forsythe ES, Mendoza HK, Sloan DB Mol Phylogenet Evol 13-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC9673162
doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107395
PMID:35033670
Sewage Pollution Promotes the Invasion-Related Traits of Impatiens glandulifera in an Oligotrophic Habitat of the Sharr Mountain (Western Balkans) Stanojevic M, Trailovic M, Dubljanin T, Krivošej Z, Nikolic M, Nikolic N Plants (Basel) 20-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8708665
doi:10.3390/plants10122814
PMID:34961285
Plant Invasion Research in Russia: Basic Projects and Scientific Fields Vinogradova YK, Tokhtar VK, Notov AA, Mayorov SR, Danilova ES Plants (Basel) 19-Jul-2021
PMCID:PMC8309313
doi:10.3390/plants10071477
PMID:34371680
How to Protect Natural Habitats of Rare Terrestrial Orchids Effectively: A Comparative Case Study of Cypripedium calceolus in Different Geographical Regions of Europe Jakubska-Busse A, Tsiftsis S, Śliwiński M, Křenová Z, Djordjević V, Steiu C, Kolanowska M, Efimov P, Hennigs S, Lustyk P, Kreutz K( Plants (Basel) 20-Feb-2021
PMCID:PMC7923770
doi:10.3390/plants10020404
PMID:33672509
Vegetation- and Environmental Changes on Non-Reclaimed Spoil Heaps in Southern Poland Rahmonov O, Krzysztofik R, Środek D, Smolarek-Lach J Biology (Basel) 15-Jul-2020
PMCID:PMC7408371
doi:10.3390/biology9070164
PMID:32679749
A comprehensive dataset on cultivated and spontaneously growing vascular plants in urban gardens Frey D, Moretti M Data Brief 23-May-2019
PMCID:PMC6545399
doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.103982
PMID:31194048
Functional significance of the optical properties of flowers for visual signalling van der Kooi CJ, Dyer AG, Kevan PG, Lunau K Ann Bot 04-Jul-2018
PMCID:PMC6344213
doi:10.1093/aob/mcy119
PMID:29982325
Ecological differentiation, speciation, and rarity: How do they match in Tephroseris longifolia agg. (Asteraceae)? Janišová M, Skokanová K, Hlásny T Ecol Evol 31-Jan-2018
PMCID:PMC5838062
doi:10.1002/ece3.3770
PMID:29531667
Contrasting Patterns of Nucleotide Substitution Rates Provide Insight into Dynamic Evolution of Plastid and Mitochondrial Genomes of Geranium Park S, Ruhlman TA, Weng ML, Hajrah NH, Sabir JS, Jansen RK Genome Biol Evol 06-Jul-2017
PMCID:PMC5570028
doi:10.1093/gbe/evx124
PMID:28854633
The bear in Eurasian plant names: motivations and models Kolosova V, Svanberg I, Kalle R, Strecker L, Özkan AM, Pieroni A, Cianfaglione K, Molnár Z, Papp N, Łuczaj Ł, Dimitrova D, Šeškauskaitė D, Roper J, Hajdari A, Sõukand R J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 21-Feb-2017
PMCID:PMC5320662
doi:10.1186/s13002-016-0132-9
PMID:28222790
Coevolution between Nuclear-Encoded DNA Replication, Recombination, and Repair Genes and Plastid Genome Complexity Zhang J, Ruhlman TA, Sabir JS, Blazier JC, Weng ML, Park S, Jansen RK Genome Biol Evol 17-Feb-2016
PMCID:PMC4824065
doi:10.1093/gbe/evw033
PMID:26893456
Competition between anthocyanin and flavonol biosynthesis produces spatial pattern variation of floral pigments between Mimulus species Yuan YW, Rebocho AB, Sagawa JM, Stanley LE, Bradshaw HD Jr Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 16-Feb-2016
PMCID:PMC4780602
doi:10.1073/pnas.1515294113
PMID:26884205
A Time-Encoded Technique for fibre-based hyperspectral broadband stimulated Raman microscopy Karpf S, Eibl M, Wieser W, Klein T, Huber R Nat Commun 17-Apr-2015
PMCID:PMC4410670
doi:10.1038/ncomms7784
PMID:25881792

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