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Bayer Code : eroci
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Geraniaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: common stork's-bill
Name per country: DE : Schierlings-Reiherschnabel ; ES : aguja de pastor ; FR : érodium à feuilles de ciguë ; IT : becco di grù comune ; PT : bico-de-cegonha. ; EN : common stork's-bill (GB), EN : redstem filaree (U.S.A.) ; NL : gewone en duinreigersbeck ; DK : hejrenæb
Biological type: Annual, Biennial
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- Cotyledons divided.
- Leaves pinnately divided.
- Height: 5-100 cm.
- Stem prostrate or ascending, simple or branched, hairy.
- Basal leaves in rosette close to the ground. Leaves stiffly hairy, red-tinged. Hairs stiff, erect, scarce or dense; often glandular above. Leaves opposite, variable in form, pinnatifid or 2-pinnatifid, with ovate or linear teeth, lanceolate, acute or truncate at the apex.
- Flowers red, pink or white, solitary or 2-8 in umbels. Peduncles 10-20 mm long, usually longer than the leaves, covered with short scarce hairs. Sepals 4-7 mm, acute or awned. Petals truncate, rounded.
- Fruit : appressed hairs on valves and beak, long-haired suture, cylindric and smooth seed.
- Biological type: Annual or biennial.
Ecological profile (click on flags): Present Present Present Present Present Rare Present Present