Photographs: Co. Cork

Common Storks-bill Erodium cicutarium Creagach Family: Geraniaceae Flowering time: May-September. Annual. Native. Umbels of 3-6 pink (occasionally white) flowers, the 5 un-lobed petals often with dark spot at base. Most flowers wider than 10mm. Feathery leaves lobed nearly to mid-rib, the leaflets are deeply pinnate, toothed or lobed. A very variable hairy or sometimes sticky plant with sub-erect or procumbent spreading stems. Height/spread to 50cm. Frequent in coastal areas, occasional inland on bare sandy ground Similar: Musk storksbill, E. moschatum and Sticky Stork's-bill, E. lebelii

Common Stork's-bill, Erodium cicutarium, Creagach