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Geranium robertianum
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.
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.
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...
Spotted on May 6, 2018
Submitted on May 7, 2018
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