SEA STORK'S-BILL
Erodium maritimum
Crane's-bill (Geranium) Family [Geraniaceae] 
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Crane's-bill (Geranium) Family [Geraniaceae]
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flower
inner
morph
petals
(5)petals
often 0stem
sex
| 25th April 2015, car park, Minsmere, Suffolk. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
| The light green leaves are those of Sea Stork's-bill [the much smaller red leaves are of Mossy Stonecrop (Crassula tillia)] |
| 25th April 2015, car park, Minsmere, Suffolk. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
| Two or three basal rosettes of Sea Stork's-bill. |
| 25th April 2015, car park, Minsmere, Suffolk. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
| The flowers on this specimen were decumbent (rather than ~upright as they can be) but have all turned to fruits with beaks which are laying flat, the flowers all turned to fruits. Leaves are blunt toothed or very shallowly pinnately lobed. The petals are usually non-existent, or if present 5 but none exceed the sepals. |
| 25th April 2015, car park, Minsmere, Suffolk. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
| The short white things near the centre were the flower stalks, now holding the fruits. |
| 15th June 2014, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
| The length of the mericarps plus beak is very short for a Stork's-bill, only 0.8 to 1cm long. The beak is ribbed/grooved (take your pick) which is a defining feature of Sea Stork's-bill, and also twisted it seems here. The pits in the fruit are partly obscured by hairs from below stretching over them (presumably only visible when the sepals drop off?) |
| 25th April 2015, car park, Minsmere, Suffolk. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
| The style is still attached to the end of the beak and has 5 short stubby stigmas. |
| 15th June 2014, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
| 15th June 2014, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
| Short curled hairs on leaves. |
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Uniquely identifiable characteristics (for a Stork's-bill) Distinguishing Feature : It is native and usually grows near the sea in old fixed sand dunes or in barish places in short grassland. Only sometimes is it found inland and only rarely as a spreading 'weed'.
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 Erodium
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maritimum
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⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ |
Geraniaceae
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 Erodium (Stork's-bills) |
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Crane's-bill (Geranium) Family [Geraniaceae]
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