soft stork’s-bill

Erodium malacoides

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

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CalPhotos

• leaf simple, crenate to shallowly lobed, blade generally < petiole
• sepals 4–6 mm, tip with one or more bristles
• petals ± = sepals
• petals tinged toward red-purple rather than the above flowers’ pale purple
• extremely rare in the bay area; may only be misidentifications

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Chris’s observations: none

Not all sites include this taxon:

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

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora