Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pelargonium littorale
Common name
Coast Stork's-bill
Family
Geraniaceae
Where found
Usually on sandy soils. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb to about 0.4 m tall. Stems hairy, sticky. Leaves opposite each other, to 6 cm long, to 60 mm wide, oval with cordate bases or round, entire to shallowly 5–7-lobed, surfaces usually sparsely hairy with coarse hairs or becoming hairless, margins scalloped or bluntly toothed. Flowers usually deep pink, with 5 petals each 5–6 mm long, and 3-5 stamens that produce pollen. Sepals 3–4 mm long, narrow, tips pointed, with sparse, long (about 1 mm or more) spreading hairs, sometimes mixed with much shorter erect hairs, sepal spur 1–3.5 mm long. Flowers in 2–7-flowered clusters. Flowers Spring to Autumn.
Data deficient Vic.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/49ec3198-acd7-424d-b967-5e30ea69582c (accessed 8 March 2021)
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