Erodium corsicum

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

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

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 6-9" apart.

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : L?man Publication : Fl. Franc. (DC. & Lamarck), ed. 3. 4: 842 1805

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

• An Alpine A B C and list of easy rock plants, arranged by A. Methuen. New York, E. P. Dutton and company[1922] url p. 15, p. 2.
• Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 5, October 1990: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN url p. 91.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1911 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 63, p. 97.
• Irish gardening. Dublin: Pub. Office, 1906-1922 url p. 138.
• Rock gardens; how to make and maintain them, by Lewis B. Meredith, with an introduction by F. W. Moore. .. New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1914. url p. 380.
• The English rock-garden, by Reginald Farrer. London, Jack, 1919. url p. 341, p. 395.
• The Florists' exchange: a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. New York, N.Y.: [A.T. De la Mare Ptg. and Pub. Co., url p. 445, p. 639.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url , , p. 209, p. 210, p. 277, p. 279, p. 285, p. 355, p. 357, p. 421, p. 43.
• The rock garden, London, C. Scribner's sons, 1920. url .
• The story of my rock garden, by Reginald A. Malby. .. with introduction by W. Irving. .. illustrated with photographic reproductions and colour plates by the author. London, Headly bros., publishers, ltd.[1919] url p. 109, p. 131.

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 28, 2007:

• European Environment Agency, EUNIS

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5889045
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15498728
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:372226-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 372226-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 738240

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]

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