Please Open The Website From Desktop

Close
  • COMMON NAME: Cutleaf Heron's-bill, Cut-leaved cranesbill, Geranium laciniatum.
  • ARABIC: منقار الطير، قرنوه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Erodium laciniatum (Cav.) Willd.
  • SYNONYMS: Erodium affine, Erodium hesperium, Erodium involucratum, Erodium nervulosum, Erodium pyramidatum
  • FAMILY: GERANIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Umm-Al-Quwain , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/erodium_laciniatum.htm
Annual, very variable, densely to sparingly crisp-puberulent or glandular-hairy, 15-35 cm high. Stems ascending, strigulose below. Basal leaves ovate-oblong, deeply 3-7-lobed or pinnatifid, each crenate-dentate. Cauline leaves often bipinnatisect, 3-6 cm long. Bracts 2 glabrous, suborbicular. Sepals 4-6 mm long, with awn, petals purplish-pink, twice as long as sepals. Mericarps 4-8 mm long, without furrows or grooves beneath pits; beak of fruit 4-8 cm long. Flowering from February to April.
Sandy and loamy soils.
1 / 3
2 / 3
3 / 3