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- Improve knowledge - Profile of meadows Cranesbill
- All significant facts in the overview
- A perennial flower with healing potential
- Hairy from bottom to top
- Beautiful flowers and extraordinary fruits
- Tips
The meadow profile is edible and has a healing effect
Improve knowledge - Profile of meadows Cranesbill
Anyone who has raged across the meadow on his childhood days may perhaps remember him. The Meadow Cranesbill is increasingly found on meadows, but he also finds a home elsewhere. Which characteristics and demands does he have?
All significant facts in the overview
A perennial flower with healing potential
The Meadow Cranesbill is perennial thanks to its powerful rootstock in the ground. Contrary to some other cranesbill plants it is not poisonous but edible. For example, you can eat his young leaves, buds and flowers. It has a cooling, decongestant and anti-inflammatory effect and helps with:
Hairy from bottom to top
He rises between 30 and 100 cm. Its growth is upright and assumes a bushy-herbaceous appearance. The slender stems are hairy. Likewise, the leaves on many fine hairs. Admittedly, that makes eating less of a culinary highlight.
The long-stalked leaves are 5- to 7-lobed. The lobes are pronounced. In the end, they run to a point, while they are roughly serrated on the edge. The color describes a dull green. In autumn, the foliage is dropped.
Beautiful flowers and extraordinary fruits
From June, the flowers appear. They are present until August and in exceptional cases until September. They usually occur in pairs. The forest cranesbill they are very similar. But they are bluish as the flowers of the forest dweller.
Here are further features of the flowers and the following fruits:
Tips
How about a trip to the meadow, collecting the meadow cranesbill and a subsequent wild herb salad or a soup with the buds of this plant?