Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Erodium botrys

Stems with flowers and seed cases. Photographer Don Wood, Canberra, ACT

Seeds. Photographer Zoya Akulova, California, USA

Plant with seed cases. Photographer Javier Martin, Spain

Common name

Long storksbill

Family

Geraniaceae

Where found

Woodland, grassy areas, and disturbed sites. ACT and nearby. Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to 0.5 m tall or sprawling. Stems often with stiff hairs towards the base, but often becoming hairless below and more or less densely sticky hairy above. Leaves 3-14 cm long, 10-40 mm wide, hairy, toothed. Basal leaves deeply dissected, stem leaves opposite each other, smaller than the basal leaves. Flowers blue to mauve-pink or pink, with 5 petals each 6-15 mm long or more, in clusters of 1-3 flowers. Flowers Winter to Summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Erodium~botrys  (accessed 14 January, 2021)