Geranium molle L.

Spice Flower

Family: GERANIACEAE

Genus: Geranium

Catalan common name: Gerani. Rellotges. Suassana.

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza. Formentera. Cabrera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Holoartica

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Therophytic calicole fields. Cultivated fields, path and road sides.

Characteristics: This is an annual cycle geranium which is quite common in fields, and in the surrounding terophitic communities. The leaves have a rounded outline with not very deep lobules. It forms small pink flowers, with each petal profoundly divided into two lobules; if it is not looked at carefully, it seems to have ten petals. This feature easily differentiates it from Geranium rotundifolium which forms petals which are only slightly notched.