| Erodium cicutarium (L.) L’Hér., it is an annual or biennial plant, very polymorphic plant. more or less hairy, with stems at first almost absent, then elongated, lying-spreading or ascending. Leaves pinnatisecate, with oval or oblong segments, incised-pinnatifid or deeply pennatipartite. Red, pink or white flowers, small, 2-8 in umbels on radical or axillary peduncles usually longer than the leaves, bracteoles ovate-acuminate. Sepals briefly mucronate. Petals not contiguous, obovate, more or less unequal and a little longer than the calyx. Stamen filaments glabrous, linear-lanceolate, without teeth at the base, beak 2-4 cm, edges at 5-8 turns. The long seed-pod, shaped like the bill of a stork, bursts open in a spiral when ripe, sending the seeds (which have long tails called awns) into the air. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Apr, Vern: Dahmiyet El-Ghazl, Phytochoria: Cosm, The native range of this species is Macaronesia, Temp. Eurasia to N. & NE. Africa. Notes: Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:372219-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/372219-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000676799, https://www.gbif.org/species/9485490, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/10733/erodium-cicutarium-l-l-h-r, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/424.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erodium_cicutarium, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/EROCIC/, https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/96895/tab/fiche, https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Erodium+cicutarium, https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.21843, https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/erodium_cicutarium.htm |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains |
| Tripoli 1972, 1978 Jafara Plain (Wadi Ghado) 2015 | Misurata 2008 Misurata 2015 | (7 Km) SE of Sitre City 2008 Wadi Al-Hamar Region 2020 |
| Benghazi Plain | Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Garyounis, Gardena, Al-Aqouriyah, Al-Ajramiyah 2016 Jardina-Soloq Region 2020 (35 Km) South East of Benghazi (adjacent to the Jardinah village) 2020 Wadi El-Enaghar 2021 Soloq (Beir Bullerjam) 2022 | Gharian 1974 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 | Shahat to Faidia 1970 Gebel Akhder, (22 km) S.W. Massah 1967, 1978 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi El-Shees 2014 Wadi Derna, Wadi Jarjar-oma 2016 Wadi Al-Ager 2017 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
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