The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Erodium lebelii
Sticky stork's-bill is a small annual wild plant of sandy dunes and heaths on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of western Europe. It grows low in flat rosettes and survives dry summers on a deep taproot.
Erodium lebelii, sticky stork's-bill, is an annual plant in the family Geraniaceae. It occurs on sand dunes and heaths on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of western Europe. Its taxonomic status is uncertain: some authorities consider it merely a variety or subspecies of common stork's-bill while others consider it to be the same as the north African species Erodium aethiopicum.
Sticky stork's-bill is almost entirely restricted to western Europe, where it grows mainly on the Atlantic coast from Germany to Spain, and on the Mediterranean coast in Italy, Corsica, mainland France and Spain. It probably extends to Morocco in North Africa, but there are taxonomic uncertainties about the more southerly plants. If Erodium lebelii is really conspecific with E. aethiopicum, then it also occurs along the whole Mediterranean coast of Africa.
Erodium acaule · Erodium alnifolium · Erodium astragaloides · Longbeak stork's bill · Shortfruit stork's bill · Three Lobed Stork's Bill · Erodium chrysanthum · Common stork's bill · Common Stork's-bill · Eastern Stork's Bill · Australian stork's bill · Erodium glandulosum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erodium lebelii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
