[Filarees, Heron's Bills, and Stork's Bills: The Genus Erodium in the Mountains and Deserts of the American Southwest]

African Filaree, Common Stork's Bill, Filaree, Redstem Stork's Bill, Red-stemmed Filaree

Erodium cicutarium

Synonyms: Erodium aethiopicum, Erodium cicutarium ssp. cicutarium, Erodium cicutarium ssp. jacquinianum, Erodium ethiopicum

Close-up of the flower of African Filaree, Common Stork's Bill, Filaree, Redstem Stork's Bill, Red-stemmed Filaree: Erodium cicutarium (Synonyms: Erodium aethiopicum, Erodium cicutarium ssp. cicutarium, Erodium cicutarium ssp. jacquinianum, Erodium ethiopicum) - Close-up underside view of the flower of African Filaree, Common Stork's Bill, Filaree, Redstem Stork's Bill, Red-stemmed Filaree: Erodium cicutarium (Synonyms: Erodium aethiopicum, Erodium cicutarium ssp. cicutarium, Erodium cicutarium ssp. jacquinianum, Erodium ethiopicum) - Developing "stork bill" fruits of African Filaree, Common Stork's Bill, Filaree, Redstem Stork's Bill, Red-stemmed Filaree: Erodium cicutarium (Synonyms: Erodium aethiopicum, Erodium cicutarium ssp. cicutarium, Erodium cicutarium ssp. jacquinianum, Erodium ethiopicum)

Close-up images of the flowers and developing fruits of african filaree.

Underside of a flower of African Filaree, Common Stork's Bill, Filaree, Redstem Stork's Bill, Red-stemmed Filaree: Erodium cicutarium (Synonyms: Erodium aethiopicum, Erodium cicutarium ssp. cicutarium, Erodium cicutarium ssp. jacquinianum, Erodium ethiopicum) - Basal leaves of African Filaree, Common Stork's Bill, Filaree, Redstem Stork's Bill, Red-stemmed Filaree: Erodium cicutarium (Synonyms: Erodium aethiopicum, Erodium cicutarium ssp. cicutarium, Erodium cicutarium ssp. jacquinianum, Erodium ethiopicum) - Flower of African Filaree, Common Stork's Bill, Filaree, Redstem Stork's Bill, Red-stemmed Filaree: Erodium cicutarium (Synonyms: Erodium aethiopicum, Erodium cicutarium ssp. cicutarium, Erodium cicutarium ssp. jacquinianum, Erodium ethiopicum)

African filaree as seen along the Montezuma Valley Road just downhill to the south of Culp Valley and uphill several miles to the southwest of Borrego Springs, CA........March 29, 2011.

Basal leaf of African Filaree, Common Stork's Bill, Filaree, Redstem Stork's Bill, Red-stemmed Filaree: Erodium cicutarium (Synonyms: Erodium aethiopicum, Erodium cicutarium ssp. cicutarium, Erodium cicutarium ssp. jacquinianum, Erodium ethiopicum) - African Filaree, Common Stork's Bill, Filaree, Redstem Stork's Bill, Red-stemmed Filaree: Erodium cicutarium (Synonyms: Erodium aethiopicum, Erodium cicutarium ssp. cicutarium, Erodium cicutarium ssp. jacquinianum, Erodium ethiopicum)

African filaree as seen on the wash of Hornblend Canyon upstream from San Diego County Route S-2, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.........March 26, 2011. Note the pinnately-compound basal leaves of this species.
Paul Slichter