An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 43° GERANIACEAE. Vol. II. 3. ERODIUM L'Her.; Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 414. 1789. Herbs, generally with jointed nodes, opposite or alternate stipulate leaves, and axillary umbellate nearly regular flowers. Sepals 5, imbricated. Petals 5, hypogynous, imbricated, the 2 upper slightly smaller. Glands 5. Anther-bearing stamens
An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 43° GERANIACEAE. Vol. II. 3. ERODIUM L'Her.; Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 414. 1789. Herbs, generally with jointed nodes, opposite or alternate stipulate leaves, and axillary umbellate nearly regular flowers. Sepals 5, imbricated. Petals 5, hypogynous, imbricated, the 2 upper slightly smaller. Glands 5. Anther-bearing stamens 5, alternating with as many sterile filaments. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled, beaked by the united styles, the beak terminating in S stigmas; ovules 2 in each cavity. Capsule-lobes i-seeded, the styles elastically dehiscent and coiled spirally at maturity, villous-bearded on the inner side. Seeds not reticulate. [Greek, a heron, from the resemblance of the fruit to its beak and bill.] About 60 species, widely distributed in temperate and warm regions. There are three native species in the southwest and several exotic ones have been collected on ballast at the seaports. Type species: Erodiiim crassifolium Soland. I. Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Her. Hem- lock Stork's-bill or Heron's-bill. Alfilaria. Pink Needle. Fig. 2662. 1789. Annual, tufted, villous-pubescent. somewhat viscid, erect or ascending, branched, 6-12' high. Basal and lower leaves petioled, 3-7' long, i'-i' wide, pinnate, the divisions finely pinnatitid; upper leaves sessile, otherwise similar; peduncles generally longei than the leaves, umbellately 2-12-flowered; flowers purple or pink, 4'-5' broad; sepals acute, villous, about equalling the entire petals; carpels hairy; beak i'-iV long, its divisions spirally coiled when ripe. Waste places and fields. Nova Scotia to Ontario, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan and very abundant from Texas to Oregon. Adventive from Europe, in our area. A common weed in the Old World. Pi
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