Erodium cicutarium (L.) L’Hér., 1789

Common names

🇬🇧 Common Stork’s-bill
🇫🇷 Érodium à feuilles de ciguë, Bec-de-grue

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Superrosids
Clade: Rosids
Clade: Malvids
Order: Geraniales
Family: Geraniaceae
Tribe: Geranieae
Genus: Erodium
Species: Erodium cicutarium

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with E. acaule (L.) Bech. & Thell., 1928, which has flowers with broader, often overlapping petals and lacks cauline leaves, while E. cicutarium has flowers with narrower petals and creeping stems with leaves.

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

E. cicutarium subsp. cicutarium (L.) L’Hér., 1789, P;
E. cicutarium subsp. dunense Andreas, 1947;
E. cicutarium subsp. zairae A.P.Khokhr., 1993.

Photographs

img/erodium-cicutarium-5.webp — *Erodium cicutarium*

img/erodium-cicutarium-4.webp — *Erodium cicutarium*

img/erodium-cicutarium.webp — *Erodium cicutarium*

img/erodium-cicutarium-2.webp — *Erodium cicutarium*

img/erodium-cicutarium-3.webp — *Erodium cicutarium*

img/erodium-cicutarium-6.webp — *Erodium cicutarium*

Sources

Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 780). Biotope.