Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-653.16.15
Erodium moschatum
English: Musk stork's-bill; Whitestem filaree.
Region: Eurasia, North Africa.
Botany: weedy annual or biennial herb; young plant starts with a flat rosette of compound leaves; leaves with many oval-shaped highly lobed and toothed leaflets, with central vein, hairy, white, stemlike, plentiful, fuzzy green; flowers small, five purple or lavender petals; filaree fruit has a small, glandular body.