Seasonal Wild Flowers

Common Stork's-bill

Erodium cicutarium

Geraniaceae

April to September

It is found throughout the country but is absent from parts

of the North, the far Southwest, the East.

See the BSBI distribution map for Common Stork's-bill

It grows on dry sandy soils, sand dunes, heaths and

grassland, beside roads and on walls.

Common Stork's-bill is a native, sprawling annual growing

up to 60cm.

Flowers are pink-purple, sometimes with black patches

at the base of the 2 largest of the 5 petals.

Fertile stamens have orange pollen.

The stigmas are typically Geraniaceae star-shaped.

Leaves are 2 pinnate.

The fruits have a beak of up to 2.5cm.

Common Stork's-bill in a dune slack

Flowers - orange pollen, 5 stigmas

Black marks on 2 larger petals

Leaves

Beaked fruits