Common name: Common Storksbill, Common Crowfoot
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér. ex Aiton APNI* 
Description: Ascending to decumbent annual herb to 40 cm high, stems with non-glandular and glandular hairs.
Basal leaves pinnately compound, oblong-ovate in outline, 4–11 cm long, 1–3 cm wide; leaflets pinnatifid, ± oblong to ovate, to 5.5 cm long, toothed, hirsute or glandular-hairy; petiole to 4 cm long, hirsute to glandular-hairy.
Flowers in umbels of 2–5; peduncle 4–8 cm long; bracts fused into a tube c. 2 mm long pedicels 2.5 cm long. Sepals to 7 mm long, hirsute or glandular-hairy. Petals longer than sepals, pink to white, sometimes with dark lines or dots towards base.
Fruit 4–5 cm long; mericarps hirsute with a shallow pit at base of awn and occasionally a glabrous furrow below.
Flowering: August–January
Distribution and occurrence: Widely naturalized. Native of the Medit. region.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *NT, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP, *SWP, *NFWP, *SFWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *W.A. *S.A. *N.T.
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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