Photographs: Kinsale, Co.Cork

Musk Storks-bill Erodium moschatum Creagach muscach Family: Geraniaceae Flowering: May-July. Annual. Probably introduced. Mauve-pink flowers on hairy flower-stalks, the petals without a dark spot at the base. Leaves with shallowly toothed leaflets, the stipules blunt. A sticky/hairy plant, sometimes smelling of musk. Height to 30cm Usually coastal on waste ground, roadsides, walls and dunes. Most frequent on southern and eastern Irish coasts Very similar: Common Storks-bill, Erodium cicutarium

Musk Stork's-bill, Erodium moschatum, Creagach muscach