Musk Stork's-Bill

Erodium moschatum

"Erodium moschatum" is a species of flowering plant in the geranium family. This is a weedy annual or biennial herb which is native to much of Eurasia and North Africa but can be found on most continents where it is an introduced species.
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Appearance

The young plant starts with a flat rosette of compound leaves, each leaf up to 15 centimeters long with many oval-shaped highly lobed and toothed leaflets along a central vein which is hairy, white, and stemlike. The plant grows to a maximum of about half a meter in height with plentiful fuzzy green foliage. The small flowers have five sepals behind five purple or lavender petals, each petal just over a centimeter long. The filaree fruit has a small, glandular body with a long green style up to 4 centimeters in length.

Like "Erodium cicutarium", the species is edible.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderGeraniales
FamilyGeraniaceae
GenusErodium
SpeciesE. moschatum