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§1 Plant

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

vernacular musky stork's bill — species · Geraniaceae


USDA
ERMO7
GBIF
9419993
Rank
species
musky stork's bill (Erodium moschatum)
Platephotograph · Jay Keller 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

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 8 counties across 5 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 8 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 8 counties across 5 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/ERMO7 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/9419993 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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