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Mediterranean stork's bill

Erodium malacoides

Also called Soft Stork's Bill, Soft Stalk's Bill, Oval Crowfoot, Oval Heron's Bill

Mediterranean stork's bill
Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Geraniaceae (Geranium family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Macaronesia to Pakistan and Somalia
Climate
subtropical

About

Erodium malacoides is a species of flowering plant in the geranium family known by the common names mallow-leaved stork's bill, Mediterranean stork's bill, and soft stork's-bill. It is an annual or biennial herb which is native to the Mediterranean region in southern Europe (north to 49°N in western France), northern Africa, and southwest Asia. It can be found locally elsewhere is an introduced species.

Other Erodium plants

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 malacoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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