Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Erodium moschatum

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering stems. Photographer Jackie Miles

Seed cases and leaves. Photographer Luigi Rignanese, Italy

Common name

Musky Crowfoot, Musky Storksbill 

Family

Geraniaceae

Where found

Woodland, grassland, pasture, gardens, roadsides, disturbed sites, waste areas, and crops. Widespread.

Notes

Annual herb with a musk-like smell, to 0.40 m high or prostrate. Stems hairy with simple and glandular hairs, denser on the upper stems. Leaves 4–15 cm long, 20–50 mm wide, compound, with numerous leaflets each 1–3 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, toothed, covered with glandular and simple hairs. Flowers with 5 pink to pinky mauve petals. Sepals 3-7 mm long, petals slightly longer. Flowers in 4–9 flowered clusters. Flowers winter-summer                                         

PlantNET descrption:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Erodium~moschatum  (accessed 14 January, 2019)