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Pelargonium luridum
Also called Lurid Storksbill, Stork's Bill, Variable Stork's Bill, Variable Storksbill, Stalk Flowered Pelargonium, Starburst Pelargonium, Waving Pelargonium
Pelargonium luridum, locally called variable stork's bill, is a medium high, tuberous herbaceous perennial geophyte, belonging to the Stork's bill family, with white to pink, slightly mirror symmetrical flowers in umbels on long unbranched stalks directly from the ground rosette that consists of few initially ovate, later pinnately incised or linear leaves, with blunt teeth around the margin. The variable stork's bill naturally occurs from South Africa to Angola, southern Congo and Tanzania.
Pelargonium luridum occurs naturally in Angola, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, South-Africa (Cape Province, Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal), Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe. It can be found in grassland and open bush, is said to prefer locations subject to regular fires, and damp ground such as by streams.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pelargonium luridum 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.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
