Geranium asphodeloides Burm.f. Yaramerhemi (in Turkish)

Geranium asphodeloides Burm.f. - Yaramerhemi (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Perennial, 15−50 cm, erect or weakly ascending; rhizome short, bearing fleshy, narrowly fusiform roots. Leaves 3−6 cm diam, palmatifid to 3/4−4/5; segments broadly cuneate, 2−3-fid into entire or incised-dentate lobes. Peduncles 1−6(−10) cm. Pedicels glandular-pilose, deflexed in fruit. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 6−7.5 mm, pubescent, often glandular; awn 1−1.5 mm. Petals obovate or narrowly so, entire or retuse, 9−14 mm, mauve or sometimes reddish purple. Mericarps pubescent, not ridged; beak (excl. slender style) 10−12 mm. Seeds foveolate.

 

subsp. asphodeloides

Stem retrorsely pilose, eglandular; inflorescence diffuse, few-flowered, leafy; petals 12-16 mm, mauve.

 

Flowering time: April−June.

Habitat: Forest, scrub, meadows, banks, s. l−1400 m.

 

Reference:

Davis PH (1967). Geranium asphodeloides Burm., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2: 468.

Public Description:

Geranium asphodeloides, known as “yaramerhemi” in Turkish, is distributed in Balkans, Crimea, Western Caucasus, Northern Iran, Syria, Central and North Anatolia. It is a herbaceous perennial plant with purplish-pink flowers, up to 50 cm in length. It blooms between April and June and is found in woodland, shrubs, meadows and banks.

 

References:

Anonymous (2016). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=2230 /, Accessed date: 13.02.2016.

Ekim T (2012). Geranium L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 517–520.