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Erodium maritimum
Erodium maritimum, the sea stork's-bill, is a herbaceous perennial plant in the family Geraniaceae. It occurs on free-draining stony soils close to the sea and, very occasionally, in similar situations inland. Most of the world's population occurs in southern Britain and Brittany, but it is found in scattered locations around the coast of Europe as far as Corsica and Italy, and south to the Canary Isles.
Sea stork's-bill is almost entirely restricted to western Europe, where it has a very Atlantic distribution, mainly in south-western Britain, southern Ireland and Brittany. It extends to north-west Spain and the western Mediterranean to Italy. In north Africa it is found only in the Canary Islands (specifically, La Palma, Gran Canaria and Tenerife) and Tunisia (a specimen collected at Nabeul in 1884 is at the Paris Museum of Natural History) and it is known on the island of Zembra). Some sources suggest that it has been introduced to Tasmania, but a 2021 census of plants did not list it there.
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 maritimum 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.
