Erodium malacoides is a species of flowering plant in the geranium family known by the common names Mediterranean stork's bill,[1] soft stork's-bill[2] and oval heron's bill. This is an annual or biennial herb which is native to much of Eurasia and North Africa but can be found on most continents where it is an introduced species.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Geraniales |
| Family: | Geraniaceae |
| Genus: | Erodium |
| Species: | E. malacoides
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Description
editThe young plant grows a number of ruffled green leaves radially outward flat against the ground from a knobby central stem.[citation needed] The stem may eventually reach half a meter in height with more leaves on long, hairy petioles. It bears small flowers with fuzzy, soft spine-tipped sepals and five lavender to magenta petals. The fruit is green with a glandular body about half a centimeter long and a long, pointed style two to three centimeters in length.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Erodium malacoides". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
- ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ^ Regents of the University of California (1993). "Erodium malacoides". Jepston Manual. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ^ Aedo, Carlos; Navarro, Carmen (2014). "Erodium malacoides". Jepston Flora Project. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
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