Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-653.16.01
California macrophylla
English: Roundleaf stork's bill.
Taxonomy: formerly placed in the genus Erodium.
Region: southwestern United States, northern Mexico.
Botany: open habitat, grassland, scrub; annual herb, low, forming a patch; leaves green dorsally and purple ventrally, slightly lobed, kidney-shaped to rounded on long, slender petioles, clear red veins once mature; inflorescence is a fragile umbel; flowers white, pinkish, purplish, break off easily; fruit has a fuzzy base and a long, narrow style.