Erodium laciniatum(Cav.) Willd.

cutleaf stork's bill

WFO wfo-0000676925 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Erodium laciniatum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. a Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-03 / obs. 125865199
Erodium laciniatum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. b Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120407371
Erodium laciniatum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. c Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125865062
Erodium laciniatum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. d Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120407473
Erodium laciniatum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. e Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125865469
Erodium laciniatum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. f Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120407461
Erodium laciniatum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. g Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125865326
Erodium laciniatum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. h Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120407225

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000296037
Filed as
Erodium laciniatum (Cav.) Willd.
Det. by
Boulos, L.
Collected
Rico, L.; et al. 2005-05-05
Origin
TN
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Erodium laciniatum is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan-South Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Albania, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMauritaniaMoroccoSudan-South SudanTunisiaWestern SaharaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Gulf StatesIranIraqKuwaitLebanon-SyriaOmanPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanPakistanAlbaniaGreeceItalyKritiPortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Canary Is.Sardegna
Native distribution of Erodium laciniatum, 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
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Gulf States GST
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kuwait KUW
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Oman OMA
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Albania ALB EUROPE
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL

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 107 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 4.1 °C 10.3 °C 13.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.6 °C 30.1 °C 37.8 °C
Annual rainfall 102 mm 593 mm 770 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 1 mm 3 mm 63 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 107 research-grade observations of Erodium laciniatum 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 42 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 affine Ten.
  • Erodium alexandrinum Delile
  • Erodium botrys C.A.Mey.
  • Erodium chium f. hispidum (C.Presl) Paol.
  • Erodium chium var. laciniatum (Cav.) Paol.
  • Erodium chium var. soluntinum (Tod.) Paol.
  • Erodium cinerascens Moris
  • Erodium decipiens Delile ex Ten.
  • Erodium hispidum C.Presl
  • Erodium involucratum Kunze
  • Erodium laciniatum f. brevimucronatum Pau
  • Erodium laciniatum f. glandulosopilosum Vierh.
  • Erodium laciniatum f. involucratum (Kunze) Sennen
  • Erodium laciniatum f. soluntinum (Tod.) Brumh.
  • Erodium laciniatum subsp. soluntinum (Tod.) Batt.
  • Erodium laciniatum subvar. hispidum (C.Presl) Nyman
  • Erodium laciniatum var. cavanillesii Willk. ex Halácsy
  • Erodium laciniatum var. dissectum Lojac.
  • Erodium laciniatum var. genuinum Pérez Lara
  • Erodium laciniatum var. hispanicum DC. ex Pau
  • Erodium laciniatum var. hispidum (C.Presl) Guss.
  • Erodium laciniatum var. intermedium Pérez Lara
  • Erodium laciniatum var. involucratum (Kunze) Willk. & Lange
  • Erodium laciniatum var. nevadense Ceballos & C.Vicioso ex Pau

and 18 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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.