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§1 Plant

Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér. ex Aiton

vernacular redstem stork's bill — species · Geraniaceae


USDA
ERCI6
GBIF
9485490
Rank
species
redstem stork's bill (Erodium cicutarium)
Platephotograph · Heather Chamberlain source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Geraniaceae Juss.
Genus
Erodium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • GL Greenland Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 231 counties across 22 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 231 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 231 counties across 22 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 1 I
Alaska view state ↗ 3 I
Arizona view state ↗ 15 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 9 I
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Georgia view state ↗ 5 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 8 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 4 I
Maine view state ↗ 7 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I
Montana view state ↗ 24 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 I
New York view state ↗ 20 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 22 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 16 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I
Vermont view state ↗ 4 I
Virginia view state ↗ 53 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 10 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ERCI6 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/9485490 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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