Erodium

and California

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Erodium

Classification

Species

Clade I, Subclade 1

Subgenus Erodium

 - Section Erodium

 - Section Oxyrynchia

 - stephanianum group

Clade I, Subclade 2

Subgenus Barbata

 - Section  Absinthoidea

Clade II, Subclade 3

 - cygnorum group

Clade II, Subclade 4

 - botrys group

 - Section Cicutaria,

   - Subsection Cicutaria

   - Subsection Acaulia

 - Section Malacoidea

   - Subsection Reichardia

   - Subsection Malacoidea

 - Section Foetida

California

Literature and References

Notes

Erodium cicutarium (L)L’Her. Common Storksbill

Annual, plant suberect to procumbent, to 60cm.

Leaves pinnate, with entire to pinnatipartite leaflets and with no intercalary leaflets, with few or no glandular hairs.

Inflorescence: Flowers small, mostly less than 10 mm, petals narrow obovate, pinkish purple or occasionally white, unmarked or the upper 2 often 2-spotted;

Fruit: mericarps with eglandular foveole, and furrow half the width of the foveole beneath, not over arched by hairs, rostrum 20-45mm. 2n=40

Distribution: in barish places in grassland, wasteland, on sandy or chalky soils and sand-dunes, endemic to Europe, Africa, Asia, now global.

Notes: Appears to be genetically isolated from other members of subsection Cicutaria. Professor Guittonneau was unable to form hybrids between Erodium cicutarium and Erodiums primulaceum, salzmannii, aethiopicum, sublyratum and moschatum

Erodium cicutarium growing with Erodium maritimum near Padstow, Cornwall, UK