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Erodium moschatum
Also called Musk Stork's Bill, Ground Needles, Musk Clover, Muskus Grass, Musky Crowfoot, Musky Erodium, Musky Filaree
Musky stork's bill is a weedy annual or biennial herb in the geranium family, with a musky smell when bruised. It is a weed of open, disturbed ground rather than a garden plant, and it grows readily from seed.
Erodium moschatum is a species of flowering plant in the geranium family known by the common names musk stork's-bill and whitestem filaree. This is a weedy annual or biennial herb which is native to much of Eurasia and North Africa but can be found on most continents where it is an introduced species. In North America, it is found in most of the northeast United States and in Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona, as well as the Canadian provices of Québec and Ontario.
Several species of insects have been recorded on musk stork's-bill, including the midge Dasineura erodiicola, which causes galls on the flowers. Two moths are recorded feeding on the leaves: the Setaceous Hebrew character and Thaumetopoea herculeana, as is the weevil Donus dauci and the green peach aphid.
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 · Stork's bill
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erodium moschatum 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.
