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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(First update on October 14 2009. Last on February 18 2012)

Thunberg's geranium
Geranium thunbergii Siebold ex Lindl. et Paxton
[Geraniaceae]

Gennoshouko (ゲンノショウコ, 現ノ証拠)

Lifeform: prennial forb
Origin: temperate Asia, including Far East, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan
Habitat: sunny sites, such as grasslands and forest edges
Seed dispersal: self
Crude drug: intestinal remedy (in particular, antidiarrheic) by producing tanin

Synonyms

Geranium nepalense Sweet f. roseum H. Hara
Geranium nepalense auct. non Sweet
Geranium nepalense Sweet var. thunbergii (Siebold ex Lindl. et Paxton) Kudo
Geranium nepalense Sweet subsp. thunbergii (Siebold ex Lindl. et Paxton) H. Hara


Geranium thunbergii in Hokkaido

ST1 ST2
[1] a whole plant. [2] Close-up of flower. [1/2] at N23/W2, North Ward, Sapporo, on August 31 2009.
ST3 ST4
[3/4] on a route to go Ishikari Coast Plant Conservation Center on June 10 2011.


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