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Read more about Common Storksbill at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Geraniales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Erodium cicutarium
FAMILY
Geraniaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Erodium cicutarium ssp. cicutarium
FAMILY
Geraniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 101-02-001:
Erodium cicutarium
FAMILY
Geraniaceae
COMMON NAME:
Common Storksbill, Redstem Storksbill, Heronsbill, Filaree
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JK Marlow jkm130328_435
March Pittsylvania County VA
Danville Riverwalk Trail
Flowers have magenta-pink oval petals without a notch at the apex, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow jkm130328_437
March Pittsylvania County VA
Danville Riverwalk Trail
Leaves pubescent, pinnately compound and deeply pinnately dissected, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
pinnately compound leaves of forbs
JK Marlow jkm130328_439
March Pittsylvania County VA
Danville Riverwalk Trail
Flowers in a two-planed umbel with an involucre. Sepals hoodlike and mucronate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Keith Bradley kab_e_cicutarium_2758
March Richland County SC
Elmwood Cemtery
Fruit much as in Geranium, but ... the beak spirally twisting when dry, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.