Erodium cicutarium (L.) L’Hér., 1789

🇬🇧 Common Stork's-bill

🇫🇷 Bec-de-grue, Érodium à feuilles de ciguë

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.

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.