Erodium chiumWilld.

WFO wfo-0000676788 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Erodium chium, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. a Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-11 / obs. 128277540
Erodium chium, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. b Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116807665
Erodium chium, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. c Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116292550
Erodium chium, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. d Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114824751
Erodium chium, photographed by Jacek Pietruszewski
fig. e Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184709095
Erodium chium, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. f Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114640600
Erodium chium, photographed by Yan Wong
fig. g Yan Wong, CC0 1.0 / obs. 343109
Erodium chium, photographed by Thibaud Aronson
fig. h Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 176575798

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Erodium chium is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, East Aegean Is., Sinai, Türkiye, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaEgyptEritreaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaWestern SaharaEast Aegean Is.SinaiTürkiyeCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiSiciliaSpain Canary Is.MadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Erodium chium, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Eritrea ERI
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 123 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 3.6 °C 7.1 °C 15.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.9 °C 26.7 °C 32.9 °C
Annual rainfall 299 mm 577 mm 791 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 2 mm 29 mm 95 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 123 research-grade observations of Erodium chium that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 39 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.

  • Erodium chium f. macrophyllum Pau
  • Erodium chium f. murcicum (Cav.) Paol.
  • Erodium chium prol. cuneatum (Viv.) Rouy
  • Erodium chium prol. littoreum (Léman) Rouy
  • Erodium chium prol. murcicum (Cav.) Rouy
  • Erodium chium subsp. cuneatum (Viv.) Nyman
  • Erodium chium subsp. littoreum (Léman ex DC.) Ball
  • Erodium chium subsp. murcicum (Cav.) Sennen
  • Erodium chium subvar. microphyllum (Rouy) Rouy
  • Erodium chium subvar. platyphyllum (Rouy) Rouy
  • Erodium chium var. albiflorum P.Palau
  • Erodium chium var. catalaunicum Sennen & Pau
  • Erodium chium var. cuneatum (Viv.) Parl.
  • Erodium chium var. longepetiolatum Sennen
  • Erodium chium var. macrophyllum Pérez Lara
  • Erodium chium var. murcicum (Cav.) Nyman
  • Erodium chium var. murcicum (Cav.) Rouy ex Willk.
  • Erodium chium var. renifolium Brumh.
  • Erodium chium var. typicum Paol.
  • Erodium cuneatum Viv.
  • Erodium gruinum f. cuneatum (Viv.) Parl.
  • Erodium gruinum var. cuneatum (Viv.) Steud.
  • Erodium litoreum Badarò
  • Erodium littoreum Léman ex DC.

and 15 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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