Erodium botrys (Mediterranean Stork's-bill)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Erodium botrys, photographed by Jeff Harter — fig. a Jeff Harter, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 199699619

Erodium botrys, photographed by Chuck Wilson — fig. b Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198562890

Erodium botrys, photographed by Garth Harwood — fig. e Garth Harwood, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196139612

Erodium botrys, photographed by Dario Taraborelli — fig. f Dario Taraborelli, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193046597

Erodium botrys, photographed by Mary K. Hanson — fig. g Mary K. Hanson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194039010

Erodium botrys, photographed by Millie Basden — fig. h Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194319385

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Flowering n = 7,599 observations

224

1734

3351

1263

546

226

Flowering observations of Erodium botrys by month
Month	Observations
Jan	37
Feb	224
Mar	1734
Apr	3351
May	1263
Jun	546
Jul	226
Aug	64
Sep	67
Oct	52
Nov	26
Dec	9

Peak flowering in Apr, from 7,599 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Erodion botrydium (Cav.) St.-Lag.
Erodium botrys f. brevicaule (Rouy) Paol.
Erodium botrys f. gasparrinii (Guss.) Paol.
Erodium botrys var. angustisectum Merino
Erodium botrys var. brevicaule Rouy
Erodium botrys var. eglandulosum Halácsy
Erodium botrys var. gasparrinii (Guss.) Nyman
Erodium botrys var. genuinum Rouy
Erodium botrys var. luxurians Guss.
Erodium ciconium var. botrys (Cav.) L'Hér.
Erodium gasparrinii Guss.
Erodium pauciflorum Turcz.
Geranium botrys Cav.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.