Mediterranean stork's-bill

Family: Geraniaceae
Scientific name: Erodium botrys
Description: Plant Form: Spreading to erect annual rosette herb. Size: Up to 40 cm tall. Stem: Covered in stiff curled white hairs which lack glands. Leaves: Oblong to narrow elliptic. Up to 10 cm long. With deep lobes and scattered hairs. Flowers: Usually in groups of 2 or 3, but sometimes solitary. Purplish-pink or bluish with a dark red vein in lower part. Fruit and Seeds: Long dry fruit with a beak tapering to a pointed end. With very long awns up to 10 cm long and 2-3 hairless pits underneath the awns. Resembling a stork bill. Habitat: Grasslands, pastures, parks, gardens, disturbed areas, lawns. Distinguishing Features: Very similar to Hairy-pitted storksbill (Erodium brachycarpum) but has 2-3 pits under the awns rather than 1. Distinguished from Common storksbill (E. cicutarium) by longer beak on fruit. Weed Status: Other Weed Weed Type: Common Lifeform: Herbaceous

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