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Redstem Stork's-bill
Redstem Stork's-bill
Erodium cicutarium
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Annual
Size
Small
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate grassland
Range
Mediterranean Basin
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Camouflage
Status
Common

About

A low-growing annual weed from the Mediterranean geranium family, now naturalized across North America. Its corkscrew seed capsules are hygroscopic — they drill themselves into soil as humidity changes, planting the seed on their own.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Geraniales
Family
Geraniaceae
Genus
Erodium
Species
Erodium cicutarium