BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Geranium pratense L. (Meadow Crane’s-bill)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon	Summary	Date	Vice-county	Country
Geranium pratense	Plant	9 July 1971	East Sussex	England	2

Suggested Literature

Geranium pratense may be covered by literature listed under:

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Geranium pratense:

	(live)	live is parasitised by	Podosphaera fugax - a conidial powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae)		Ing, B., 1990
		is foodplant of larva	Zacladus geranii - Meadow Cranesbill Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)		Bullock, J.A., 1992
		is parasitised by	Plasmopara pusilla - a downy mildew (Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae)		Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
	leaf (live)	live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous aecium	Uromyces geranii - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
	leaf (live)	live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium	Uromyces geranii - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
	leaf (live)	live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous uredium	Uromyces geranii - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
	leaf (live)	live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous pycnium	Uromyces geranii - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
	leaf (live)	live leaf is spotted by hypophyllous colony of Ramularia anamorph	Ramularia geranii - an anamorphic fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae)		Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes round, sometimes confluent, brown spots]
	leaf	leaf is foodplant of larva	Protoemphytus carpini - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)		Benson, R.B., 1952
	leaf	leaf is grazed by larva	Aphthona nigriceps - a flea beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)		Bullock, J.A., 1992
	leaf	leaf is grazed by larva	Limobius borealis - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)		Morris, M.G., 2002 Bullock, J.A., 1992
	stem (dead)	dead stem is decayed by hypophyllous fruitbody	Efibulobasidium albescens - a jelly fungus (Tremellales: Exidiaceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
	stem	stem is decayed by scattered, erumpent apothecium	Pirottaea paupercula - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae)		Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Geranium pratense may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

References