Common (vernacular) names applied to California vascular plants
compiled by Elizabeth Painter
up to date as of May 1, 2016
Common names (also referred to as vernacular names) are applied differently at different times and places by different users. This list is compiled from many sources and is intended to be as comprehensive as possible. It is not intended to indicate which common name is correct or preferred. Please send comments about this page to Elizabeth Painter (beth.painter.48@gmail.com).
| Taxon | Erodium cicutarium |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Geraniaceae |
| Family common name(s) | geranium; geraniums; crane's-bill; crane's bill |
| Genus common name(s) | filaree; fileree; filerie; filarel; filaria; alfilaree; alfilaria; alfileria; alfiliria; alfilerilla; alfillarilla; alfilarilla; alfillaria; alfilleria; storkbill filaree; stork's-bill; stork's bill; storks' bill; storksbill; storkbill; heron's-bill; heron's bill; herons-bill; heron-bill; heron bill; heronbill; pin-clover; pin clover; pinclover |
| Species common name(s) | red-stemmed filaree; red stemmed filaree; red-stemmed filarel; red-stemmed stork's-bill; red-stemmed stork's bill; red stemmed stork's bill; red-stemmed stork's-bill; red-stem filaree; red stem filaree; redstem filaree; redstem filaria; red stem alfilaree; red-stem alfilaree; redstem alfilaree; red-stem stork's-bill; red-stem stork's bill; redstem stork's bill; red-stem storksbill; redstem stork's-bill; redstem stork's bill; redstem storksbill; red alfilaree; cut-leaf filaree; cutleaf filaree; common heron's-bill; common heron's bill; common herons-bill; common herons bill; common heronsbill; coastal heron's-bill; coastal heron's bill; hemlock geranium; hemlock stork's-bill; hemlock stork's bill; hemlock storksbill; hemlock heron's-bill; hemlock heron's bill; small-flowered stork's-bill; small-flowered stork's bill; pink filaree; powk-needle |
| | | | | Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | California filaree is more appropriately applied to California macrophylla (Erodium macrophyllum); common filaree, common stork's-bill, common stork's bill, common storksbill, desert stork's-bill, desert storksbill are applied to multiple Erodium taxa; musk heron's bill is more commonly applied to Erodium moschatum; white-flowered filaree, white-flowered stork's-bill are applied to multiple Geraniaceae taxa; cranesbill, crane's-bill, crane's bill, cranebill are more commonly applied to Geranium; pin-weed, pin weed, pinweed, pin-grass, pin grass, pingrass, pink-needle, pink needle, bird-bills, bird bills, birdbills, clocks are applied to taxa in multiple families |
| | | | | Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | subsp. cicutarium; subsp. jacquinianum (Fisch., C.A. Mey. & Avé-Lall.) Briq. |
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