Taxon: Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.

• for authorship see comments in J. S. African Bot. 45:377-380. 1979
• authorship verified from original literature

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CO*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• alfilaria   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• common stork's-bill   (Source: BSBI )
  
• heron's-bill   (Source: H.J.T. Venter, p.c.)
  
• red-stem filaree   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• stork's-bill   (Source: HPl Mary )
  

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide E. J. Ryder, 1999)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Erodium cicutarium from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Kuwait
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia [w.], Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East [natzd.?]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.w.]; Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

Other:

• naturalized in Asia, Australia, New Zeland, United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, & Hawaii

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
• Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. 1984. Herbaceous plants of Maryland. (HPl Mary)
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables (Weed TabCIBA)
• Chowdhery, H. J. & B. M. Wadhwa. 1984. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. (F Himachal)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17. (L Macar ed4)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
• Marzocca, A. 1994. Guia descriptiva de malezas del cono sur. 113–114.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Middleditch, B. S. & A. M. Amer. 1991. Kuwaiti plants: distribution, traditional medicine, phytochemistry,. economic value (Studies in Plant Science 2). (Kuwait Pl)
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
• Ryder, E. J. 1999. Lettuce, endive and chicory. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 9:134. [mentions].
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta). (L Azores)
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Venter, H. J. T. 1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Erodium cicutarium.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Erodium cicutarium. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Geranium cicutarium L. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?15670 (22 November 2009)

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