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
- 2006
- 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 quite likely so in the Rio Grande drainage, brought by Native Americans from trade with Mexican tribes. It follows the Rio Grande drainage to the Gulf of Mexico. It is on Colorado's C list of "noxious weeds."
- Annotation
- Yes