Erodium botrys

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Erodium

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves lobed or pinnatisect , longer than broad, stipulate . Flowers in cincinnal umbels, rarely solitary or 2. Involucral bracts 2 or more, united or free . Sepals and petals Fertile stamens 5, alternating with 5 staminodes. Ovary 5-lobed, long beaked in fruit. Beak plumose or bristly within on dehiscence. The stylar axis usually spirally twisted below. Mericarps with 2 apical pits.

About 90 species in Europe, Mediterranean region, C. & S.W. Asia, Australia and tropical S. America. Represented in Pakistan by 7 species.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,609 meters (0 to 5,279 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual , Biennial • Coppice Potential: No • Progagated by Bulbs: No • Propagated by Bare Root: No • Propagated by Container: No • Propagated by Corms: No • Propagated by Cuttings: No • Propagated by Seed: Yes • Propagated by Sod: No • Propagated by Sprigs: No • Propagated by Tubers: No • Fruit/Seed Period Begin: Spring • Fruit/Seed Period End: Spring • Fruit/Seed Persistence: No

Growth

Soil: Adapted to Medium Textured: Adapted to Medium Textured Soils • Adapted to Coarse Textured Soils: No • Anaerobic Tolerance: None • Salinity Tolerance: Low • CaCO3 Tolerance: High • Minimum pH: 5.6 • Maximum pH: 7.6 • Fertility Requirement: Medium

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade. • Shade Tolerance: Intolerant

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High • Minimum Precipitation: 12 • Maximum Precipitation: 24 • Moisture Use: Medium

Temperature: Minimum Temperature (F): 17 • Minimum Frost Free Days: 240 • Cold Hardiness: 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b. (map)

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Geranium Botrys

Notes

Basionym : Geraniaceae Geranium botrys Cav.

Basionym author: (Cav.)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Erodium

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 44 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

E. alpinum (Herons Bill) · E. botrys (Big Herons Bill) · E. brachycarpum (Short-Fruit Heron's-Bill) · E. carvifolium (Herons Bill) · E. chrysanthum (Yellow Herons Bill) · E. ciconium (Common Stork's Bill) · E. cicutarium (Alfilaree) · E. cicutarium bipinnatum (Alfilaree) · E. cicutarium cicutarium (Alfilaree) · E. cicutarium dunense (Alfilaree) · E. cicutarium jacquinianum (Alfilaree) · E. cicutarium ssp. bipinnatum (Redstem Stork's Bill) · E. cicutarium ssp. cicutarium (Redstem Stork's Bill) · E. cicutarium ssp. jacquinianum (Redstem Stork's Bill) · E. corsicum (Heronsbill) · E. cygnorum (Australian Heron's-Bill) · E. foetidum 'Alba' (Herons Bill) · E. gruinum (Iranian Herons Bill) · E. jacquinianum (Redstem Stork's Bill) · E. laciniatum (Cut-Leaf Heron's-Bill) · E. laciniatum var. bovei (Cutleaf Stork's Bill) · E. macrophyllum (California Storksbill) · E. macrophyllum var. californicum (California Stork's Bill) · E. macrophyllum var. californicum (Greene) Jeps. (California Stork's Bill) · E. macrophyllum var. macrophyllum (Roundleaf Stork's Bill) · E. malacoides (Mediterranean Heron's-Bill) · E. manescavii (Manescau Erodium) · E. moschatum (Musk Clover) · E. moschatum var. moschatum (Musky Stork's Bill) · E. moschatum var. praecox (Musky Stork's Bill) · E. pelargoniflorum (Herons Bill) · E. reichardii (Alpine Geranium) · E. reichardii 'Charm' (Alpine Geranium) · E. reichardii 'Dark Eyes' (Alpine Geranium) · E. reichardii 'Flora-Plena' (Alpine Geranium) · E. reichardii 'Roseum' (Alpine Geranium) · E. stephenianum (Stephen's Heron's-Bill) · E. texanum (Bull Filaree) · E. trifolium (Herons Bill) · E. x kolbianum 'Natasha' (Herons Bill) · E. x variabile 'Album' (Herons Bill) · E. x variabile 'Bishop's Form' (Bishop's Form Pink Herons Bill) · E. x variabile'Flora Plena' (Herons Bill) · E. 'Spanish Eyes' (Herons Bill)

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Further Reading

• A flora of California, by Willis Linn Jepson. San Francisco, Calif., Cunningham, Curtis & Welch, 1909- url p. 406, p. 407, p. 408.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 328.
• Beef cattle production [by] Kenneth A. Wagnon, Reuben Albaugh [and] George H. Hart. New York, Macmillan[1960] url p. 383.
• Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 4, October 1986: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 511.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 79, p. 83.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 114, p. 276, p. 330, p. 522, p. 72, p. 74.
• Catalog of hymenoptera in America north of Mexico / prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein. .. [et al.]. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979- url , p. 1797, p. 1801, p. 1937, p. 1987.
• Dudley memorial volume, containing a paper by William Russel Dudley and appreciations and contributions in his memory by friends and colleagues. .. Stanford University, Cal., The University, 1913. url .
• Leaflets of western botany. San Fransisco:[J. T. Howell], 1932-1966. url .
• Pamphlets. MelbourneGovt. Printer, 1918-42. url p. 10, p. 14, p. 15, p. 18, p. 25.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 319, p. 360.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 629, p. 692.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url , p. 421.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 40 1980 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url p. 397.
• The future of arid lands: papers and recommendations from the International Arid Lands Meetings / edited by Gilbert F. White. Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1956. url p. 354.
• Zoe:a biological journal. 2 1891 San Diego, Calif. [etc.]Zoe Publishing Co. url p. 128.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 19, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• Berkeley Natural History Museums, University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
• Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Herbarium Willing
• Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien, Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien
• European Environment Agency, EUNIS
• GBIF-Spain, Botánica, Universidad de León: LEB-Cormo
• GBIF-Spain, Dirección General de Investigación, Desarrollo Tecnológico e Innovación de la Junta de Extremadura(DGIDTI): HSS
• GBIF-Spain, Herbario Universidad de Málaga: MGC-Cormófitos
• GBIF-Spain, Institut Botanic de Barcelona, BC
• GBIF-Spain, Jardín Botánico de Córdoba: Herbarium COA
• GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
• , Vascular Plant Herbarium
• GBIF-Spain, Universidad de Oviedo. Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas: FCO
• Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Vascular Plant Herbarium, Oslo
• Oregon State University, Vascular Plant Collection
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Lund Botanical Museum
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Botanical Society of the British Isles - Vascular Plants Database
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• Utah State University, USU-UTC Specimen Database
• inatura - Erlebnis Naturschau Dornbirn, inatura - Erlebnis Naturschau Dornbirn

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2652500
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-29146
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60014-3
• GRIN Nomen Number: 316669
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 29146
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 372185-1
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDGER01010
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ERBO
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 38387

Footnotes

1. Yasin J. Nasir "Erodium". in Flora of Pakistan Page 29. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 235.080 meters (771.260 feet), Standard Deviation = 285.550 based on 393 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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