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Erodium
Also called Stork's Bills, Filaree, Heron's Bill, Heronbills, Filarees, Storksbills
Erodium is a genus of about 120 small flowering plants in the geranium family, mostly perennials, annuals, or subshrubs with five-petalled flowers that resemble crane's-bills. They are usually grown in rockeries and alpine gardens, and the hybrid E. × variabile 'Roseum' is a popular garden plant.
Erodium is a genus of flowering plants in the botanical family Geraniaceae. The genus includes about 120 species with a subcosmopolitan distribution, native to Europe, North Africa, Asia, Australia, and more locally in North and South America. They are perennials, annuals, or subshrubs, with five-petalled flowers in shades of white, pink, and purple, that strongly resemble the better-known Geranium (crane's-bills). In English-speaking areas of Europe, the species are known as stork's-bills. In North America they are known as filarees or heron's bill.
In cultivation, Erodium species are usually seen in rockeries or alpine gardens.
The hybrid cultivar E. × variabile 'Roseum' (E. corsicum × E. reichardii), a compact, spreading perennial with rose-pink flowers in summer, has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Erodium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the pasture day moth.
Erodium alnifolium · Longbeak stork's bill · Shortfruit stork's bill · Three Lobed Stork's Bill · Erodium chrysanthum · Common stork's bill · Common Stork's-bill · Erodium glandulosum · Garden Stork's Bill · Musky stork's bill
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
