Common Stork's-bill
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- 41 cm
Geraniaceae
Formerly Erodium alsiniflorum, Erodium arenarium, Erodium atomarium, Erodium baeticum, and 34 more
When it flowers
Flowers March to May in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Temp. Eurasia to N. & NE. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 30 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 41 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- PinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
ElderFlowers June to February, when this does not
Memorial RoseFlowers June to February, when this does not
PomegranateFlowers June to February, when this does not
PurslaneFlowers June to February, when this does not
Tree RhododendronFlowers June to February, when this does not
RosemaryFlowers January to February and June to November, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Turkish
- Leylekgagası
- Danish
- Hejrenæb-komplekset, Hejrenæb
- Ukrainian
- Грабельки звичайні
- Uzbek
- Laylaktumshuq, Qoramashoq
- Chinese
- 芹叶牻牛儿苗, 芹葉尨牛兒苗
- Simplified Chinese
- 芹叶牻牛儿苗
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 芹葉牻牛兒苗
- Slovenian
- navadni čapljevec
- Spanish
- espetones, alfilerillo, alfilerillos
- Catalan
- Banya de bou, Agulles de bruixa, Agulletes de bruixa
- Afrikaans
- horlosiewysterbos, muskuskruid, naaldegras
- Arabic
- رقمة شوكرانية
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Erodium cicutarium (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.