Citation: Bertol., Amoen.ltal. 35 (1819).

Synonymy: Geranium botrys Cav., Diss. 4:218 (1787); E. pauciflorum Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 31:419 (1858).

Common name: Long storks bill, big herons bill.

Description:
Ascending to erect annual herbs to 40 cm high but rarely less than 5 cm; stems covered with stiff more or less curled white eglandular hairs towards the base but often glabrescent there and with numerous glandular hairs towards the top; leaves pinnatisect, oblong to narrow-elliptic in outline, to 10 cm long and c. 3 cm wide, with scattered mostly eglandular hairs especially on the veins; the lobes serrate-dentate; petioles usually as long as the laminae.

Flowers in umbels of 2 or 3 or sometimes solitary; peduncles to 5 cm long; pedicels 10-15 mm long; sepals narrow-oblong, to 15 mm long, densely covered with glandular hairs and with some eglandular ones; petals blue, more or less obovate, slightly longer than the sepals; stamen filaments lanceolate, c. 3 mm long; staminodes about one-third as long.

Mericarps c. 10 mm long, with deep glabrous pits at the base of the awn each with 2 concentric folds which have chartaceous glabrous irregular margins; awn to 10 cm long.

	Erodium botrys with mith mericarp.
Image source: fig 388c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 431.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   Introduced into all mainland States.   Native of the Mediterranean region. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Aug. — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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