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

Interactions where Geranium pratense is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

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Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
		is foodplant of larva			Zacladus geranii	Meadow Cranesbill Weevil	Coleoptera: Curculionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Zacladus geranii/	Zacladus geranii	meadow cranesbill weevil				larva	Foodplant / feeds on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill								larva feeds on
(live)		live is parasitised by sporangium			Plasmopara pusilla s. lat.	a downy mildew	Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae	Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 A Checklist of the Downy Mildews (Peronosporaceae) of the British Isles, Preece, T.F., 2002	/Chromista/Oomycota/Peronosporea/Peronosporales/Peronosporaceae/Plasmopara pusilla s. lat./	Plasmopara pusilla s. lat.	a downy mildew				sporangium	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill		live			Major			sporangium parasitises live
(live)		live is parasitised by			Podosphaera fugax	a conidial powdery mildew	Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Podosphaera fugax/	Podosphaera fugax	a conidial powdery mildew					Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill		live						parasitises live
leaf		leaf is grazed by larva			Aphthona nigriceps	a flea beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Aphthona nigriceps/	Aphthona nigriceps	a flea beetle				larva	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill			leaf					larva grazes on leaf
leaf		leaf is grazed by larva			Limobius borealis	a weevil	Coleoptera: Curculionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Limobius borealis/	Limobius borealis	a weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill			leaf		Major			larva grazes on leaf
leaf		leaf is foodplant of larva			Ametastegia carpini	a sawfly	Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae	Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (b), Benson, R.B., 1952	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Tenthredinidae/Ametastegia carpini/	Ametastegia carpini	a sawfly				larva	Foodplant / feeds on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill			leaf		Major			larva feeds on leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by colony of Pseudocercosporella anamorph			Pseudocercosporella magnusiana	(A Leaf-spot Fungus)	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol 1, Braun, U., 1995	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Pseudocercosporella magnusiana/	Pseudocercosporella magnusiana	(a leaf-spot fungus)			colony	Pseudocercosporella anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill		live	leaf					colony of Pseudocercosporella anamorph causes spots on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by usually hypophyllous colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph			Ramularia geranii var geranii	an anamorphic fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998 Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Ramularia geranii var. geranii/	Ramularia geranii var. geranii	an anamorphic fungus		usually hypophyllous	colony	Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill		live	leaf					usually hypophyllous colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous pycnium			Uromyces geranii	Geranium Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Uromyces geranii/	Uromyces geranii	geranium rust		hypophyllous		pycnium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill		live	leaf					hypophyllous pycnium parasitises live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous aecium			Uromyces geranii	Geranium Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Uromyces geranii/	Uromyces geranii	geranium rust		hypophyllous		aecium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill		live	leaf					hypophyllous aecium parasitises live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous uredium			Uromyces geranii	Geranium Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Uromyces geranii/	Uromyces geranii	geranium rust		hypophyllous		uredium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill		live	leaf					hypophyllous uredium parasitises live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium			Uromyces geranii	Geranium Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Uromyces geranii/	Uromyces geranii	geranium rust		hypophyllous		telium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill		live	leaf					hypophyllous telium parasitises live leaf
stem		stem is decayed by scattered, erumpent apothecium			Pirottaea paupercula	a discomycete	Helotiales: Dermateaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Dermateaceae/Pirottaea paupercula/	Pirottaea paupercula	a discomycete		scattered, erumpent		apothecium	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill			stem					scattered, erumpent apothecium is saprobic on stem
stem (dead)		dead stem is decayed by hypophyllous fruitbody			Efibulobasidium albescens	a jelly fungus	Sebacinales: Sebacinaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Sebacinales/Sebacinaceae/Efibulobasidium albescens/	Efibulobasidium albescens	a jelly fungus		hypophyllous		fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Geranium pratense/	Geranium pratense	meadow crane’s-bill		dead	stem					hypophyllous fruitbody is saprobic on dead stem

Author & Year	Title	Source
Benson, R.B., 1952	Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (b)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol VI, Part 2(b), 137pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Braun, U., 1995	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol 1	Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes, 1, 333pp, IHW-Verlag
Braun, U., 1998	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II	Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes, 2, 493pp, IHW-Verlag
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Dennis, R.W.G., 1995	Fungi of the South East England	383pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Ing, B., 1990	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews	Mycologist Vol 4 (1) et seq.
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota	517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Morris, M.G., 2002	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, Part 17b, 149pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Preece, T.F., 2002	A Checklist of the Downy Mildews (Peronosporaceae) of the British Isles	33pp, British Mycological Society

Geranium pratense (Meadow Crane’s-bill) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Geranium
(true geraniums)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Geranium pratense (Meadow Crane’s-bill)
Genus	Geranium (true geraniums)
Family	GERANIACEAE (geraniums and storksbills)
Order	GERANIALES (geraniums and storksbills)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Geranium pratense is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Geraniaceae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Geranium pratense (Meadow Crane’s-bill)

Geranium pratense (Meadow Crane’s-bill) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Geranium
(true geraniums)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Geranium pratense (Meadow Crane’s-bill):

Geranium
(true geraniums)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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