hairy-pitted stork’s-bill

Erodium brachycarpum

Member of stork’s-bills (genus Erodium)
geranium family (family Geraniaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
purple in flowering plants

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• petals are rounder and with more prominent veins than in common/musk
• sepals 7–10 mm, tip with one or more bristles
• petals ± > sepals (usually hiding the sepals)
• at least two petals show only one distinct stripe each (possibly with fainter stripes on the sides)
• no sepals have red edges
• leaf lobed
• discussion

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Chris’s observations: 5 (all are research grade)

Locations:

• Henry Coe SP: 5

Months:

• Mar.: 2
• Apr.: 2
• May: 0
• Jun.: 1

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Not all sites include this taxon:

• Erodium brachycarpum → iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora
• not yet listed → FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora