COMMON STORK’S-BILL

Class: Erodium cicutarium

Family: GERANIUM FAMILY

Sub Family: Geraniaceae

Year: Annual

Other Names: Crane's-bill, Filaree, Clocks

Colour: Pink

Height: 7.5-50 cm (3-20")

Each Flower: 9 mm-1.3 cm (3/8-1/2") across with 5 elliptical petals; 10 stamens, 5 shorter and almost scale-like, the other 5 with anthers; small sepals bristled at tips; fruit resembles stork's bill

Leaves: Lower leaves have hairy, reddish stalks, oppositely lobed dissected leaflets; 1 or 2 pairs of opposite stem-leaves

Stems: Rigid, hairy, reddish, opposite branching with small swelling and stipules where they branch

Blooming Period: April - July

Habitat: Open, drier ground

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