Erodium malacoides (L.) L'Hér.

Spice Detail Flower Fruit

Family: GERANIACEAE

Genus: Erodium

Catalan common name: Agulleta. Bec de cigonya. Forquilles. Rellotges.

Spanish common name: Filamaría.

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza. Formentera. Cabrera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte. Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Therophytic calicole fields. Cultivated fields, path and road sides.

Characteristics: A very common herbaceous plant found in arable land and the wasteland of garrigues (Mediterranean woodland). It can be differentiated from Erodium chium because the leaves are not usually lobulate, the beak of the fruit is smaller than 3 cm and the pit of the mericarp has a concentric fold which is visible with a magnifying glass.