Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Erodium texanum
Erodium texanum A. Gray
Texas Stork's Bill, Stork's Bill, Pine Needle, Fillaree
Geraniaceae (Geranium Family)
USDA Symbol: ERTE13USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Erodium texanum
Storks Bill, Texas Filaree
Geranaceae
Location: Median of Harry Wurzbach Rd. at N end of Oakwell Farms Pky--San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Open, well drained, calcerous soil. Not common, but dense colonies where found.
Description: Annual/biennial, 15-45 cm tall, mostly prostrate, spreading. Leaves long petioled, opposite, dissected in numerous shallow lobes with crenate margins. Flowers reddish-purple, about 25 mm broad.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Mar 20, 1990
Specimen number: 380
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0573
Accession Date: Nov 17, 1993
Accession Number: 43
Annotations: SCXRB