Erodium cicutarium

Common stork's-bill
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Geraniales
Family: Geraniaceae
Genus: Erodium
Species:
E. cicutarium
Binomial name
Erodium cicutarium
(L.) L'Hér., 1789
Synonyms[1]
  • Geranium cicutarium L. (1753)

Erodium cicutarium, also known as common stork's-bill,[2] redstem filaree, redstem stork's bill or pinweed,[citation needed] is a herbaceous annual – or in warm climates, biennial – member of the family Geraniaceae of flowering plants. It is native to Macaronesia, temperate Eurasia and north and northeast Africa, and was introduced to North America in the eighteenth century,[3] where it has since become naturalized, particularly of the deserts and arid grasslands of the southwestern United States.[4]

  1. ^ "Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Erodium cicutarium", NBN Atlas, retrieved 2022-02-19
  3. ^ Mensing, Scott; Byrne, Roger (July 1998). "Pre-mission invasion of Erodium cicutarium in California". Journal of Biogeography. 25 (4): 757–762. Bibcode:1998JBiog..25..757M. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.1998.2540757.x. S2CID 84221304.
  4. ^ Stamp, Nancy E. (1984). "Self-burial behaviour of Erodium cicutarium seeds". Journal of Ecology. 72 (2): 611–620. Bibcode:1984JEcol..72..611S. doi:10.2307/2260070. JSTOR 2260070.