Geranium sanguineum, the Glossary

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1. 25 relations: Award of Garden Merit, Calcareous, Carl Linnaeus, Common name, County flowers of the United Kingdom, Crane (bird), Cultivar, Entomophily, Family (biology), Floral axis, Gaspard Bauhin, Geraniaceae, Glossary of botanical terms, Grassland, Hardiness (plants), Herbaceous plant, Native species, Northumberland, Perennial, Petiole (botany), Raunkiær plant life-form, Rhizome, Royal Horticultural Society, Sand dune ecology, Species.

Award of Garden Merit

The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).

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Calcareous

Calcareous is an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate", in other words, containing lime or being chalky.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Common name

In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.

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County flowers of the United Kingdom

In 2002 Plantlife conducted a "County Flowers" public survey to assign flowers to each of the counties of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man.

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Crane (bird)

Cranes are a type of large bird with long legs and necks in the biological family Gruidae of the order Gruiformes.

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Cultivar

A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated.

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Entomophily

Entomophily or insect pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen of plants, especially but not only of flowering plants, is distributed by insects.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Floral axis

The floral axis (sometimes referred to as the receptacle) is the area of the flower upon which the reproductive organs and other ancillary organs are attached.

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Gaspard Bauhin

Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin (Casparus Bauhinus; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624), was a Swiss botanist whose Pinax theatri botanici (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus.

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Geraniaceae

Geraniaceae is a family of flowering plants placed in the order Geraniales.

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Glossary of botanical terms

This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general.

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Grassland

A grassland is an area where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae).

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Hardiness (plants)

Hardiness of plants describes their ability to survive adverse growing conditions.

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Herbaceous plant

Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground.

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Native species

In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history.

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Northumberland

Northumberland is a ceremonial county in North East England, bordering Scotland.

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Perennial

In botany, a perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Petiole (botany)

In botany, the petiole is the stalk that attaches the leaf blade to the stem.

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Raunkiær plant life-form

The Raunkiær system is a system for categorizing plants using life-form categories, devised by Danish botanist Christen C. Raunkiær and later extended by various authors.

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Rhizome

In botany and dendrology, a rhizome is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow horizontally. The rhizome also retains the ability to allow new shoots to grow upwards.

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Royal Horticultural Society

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.

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Sand dune ecology

Sand dune ecology describes the biological and physico-chemical interactions that are a characteristic of sand dunes.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranium_sanguineum

Also known as Bloody Crane's-bill, Bloody Cranesbill, Bloody Geranium, Geranium sanguinem.