Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Erodium cicutarium [Geranium cicutarium]
- Family
- Geraniaceae
- CommonName
- common stork’s-bill, redstem filaree, pinweed
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- adventive, noxious
- EarliestDate
- 1897
- LatestDate
- 2024
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town), Del Norte
- Comments
- Around the Watershed, stork's bill is ubiquitous, flowering from very early spring to early fall, found in Basin towns (yards, alley ways, abandoned lots, etc.) on up into the montane (pinyon-juniper slopes, openings in ponderosa woods, etc.). Although usually deemed an exotic, Erodium cicutarium acts naturalized, present in every state of the USA, most wide spread in the West. It may, in fact, have appeared in the USA before European settlement, and most certainly so in the Rio Grande drainage, brought there by Native Americans from trade with Mexican tribes. Today it follows the Rio Grande drainage to the Gulf of Mexico. It is on Colorado's C list of "noxious weeds." For more photographs and comments, especially pertaining to the plants remarkable method of dispersal, click "yes" in the Annotation field below.
- Annotation
- Yes