Author:
Qjure
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-653.16.09
Erodium cicutarium
Names: Erodios is Greek for heron.
English: Hemlock Stork’s Bill; Filaree; Redstem filaree; Redstem stork's bill; Common stork's-bill; Pinweed.
French: Bec de heron.
Source: Sense provings; North American.
Botany: annual, biennial herb; bare, sandy, grassy places; hairy, sticky; stems; inflorescence loose cluster; flowers bright pink, dark spots on the bases; 10 filaments, 5 fertile; 5 styles; leaves pinnate to pinnate-pinnatifid; fruit long, shaped like the bill of a stork, bursts open in a spiral when ripe, sending the seeds with little feathery parachutes into the air; spiral shape of the awn can unwind during daily changes in humidity, leading to self-burial of the seeds once they are on the ground.
Region: Mediterranean, North America in the eighteenth century.