Common Name: GERANIUM FAMILY Habit: Annual, perennial herb, or +- woody, generally glandular-hairy. Leaf: simple to compound, basal and cauline; cauline alternate or opposite, stipules 2, +- on stem. Inflorescence: cyme or pseudo-umbel or 1--2-flowered. Flower: bisexual [unisexual], radial or +- bilateral; sepals 5, free, overlapping in bud; petals generally 5, free, generally with nectar glands at base; stamens generally 5,10[15]; staminodes scale-like or 0; ovary generally 5-lobed, upper part elongating into beak in fruit, chambers 5, placentas axile, style 1, stigmas 5, free, persistent in fruit. Fruit: septicidal [loculicidal], mericarps 5, dry, generally 1-seeded, each persistent on 1 of 5 linear segments of beak that separate from central column by curving or coiling upward. Genera In Family: 6 genera, 709 species: temperate, +- tropics. Some cultivated for ornament, perfume oils. eFlora Treatment Author: Carlos Aedo, except as noted Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: STORKSBILL, FILAREE Habit: Annual, perennial herb. Leaf: simple to pinnately compound, cauline opposite; blade lanceolate to reniform in outline, puberulent or short-hairy, base cordate to truncate. Inflorescence: umbel. Flower: radial; stamens 5, free, alternate 5 scale-like staminodes. Fruit: mericarp body indehiscent, fusiform, 1-seeded, base sharply pointed, top generally with 1 pit on each side of beak segment, pits subtended by 1--4 ridges or not; beak segments stiffly hairy adaxially, generally twisted. Etymology: (Greek: heron, from bill-like fruit) Note: Some cultivated for forage, dyes; "beak segments" sometimes called "awns" elsewhere. Erodium macrophyllum moved to genus California. eFlora Treatment Author: Carlos Aedo & Carmen Navarro Reference: Fiz et al. 2006 Syst Bot 31:739--763 Unabridged Reference: Guittonneau 1972 Boissiera 20:1--154
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
NATURALIZED Habit: Annual. Stem: decumbent to ascending, 1--5 dm, +- glandular-hairy. Leaf: compound; lower 3--10 cm, blade > petiole, ovate to oblanceolate in outline, sparsely hairy; leaflets 9--13, deeply dissected, ultimate segments 1--2 mm wide. Flower: sepals 3--5 mm, tip bristly; petals +- = sepals, pink to purple, base with veins generally darker. Fruit: body 4--7 mm, pits +- round, glabrous, subtended by 1--2 glabrous ridges; style column 2--5 cm. Chromosomes: 2n=20,36,40,42,54,60. Ecology: Open, disturbed sites, grassland, scrub; Elevation: < 2000 m. Bioregional Distribution: CA; Distribution Outside California: widespread United States; native to Eurasia. Flowering Time: Feb--Sep Jepson eFlora Author: Carlos Aedo & Carmen Navarro Reference: Fiz et al. 2006 Syst Bot 31:739--763 Unabridged Reference: Mensing, S., & R. Byrne. 1998. Pre-mission invasion of Erodium cicutarium in California. J Biogeogr 25:757--762 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) View the CDFA Pest Rating page for Erodium cicutarium Weed listed by Cal-IPC Previous taxon: Erodium brachycarpum Next taxon: Erodium cygnorum
Botanical illustration including Erodium cicutarium
Citation for this treatment: Carlos Aedo & Carmen Navarro 2012, Erodium cicutarium, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=25041, accessed on April 25, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 25, 2024.
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