Common Stork'S Bill (Erodium botrys)
Description
It is the species that has the longest pins, foliosa at the base, rough or hirsute on the stems . Flowers in groups of 3-4, end and side, on long peduncles , radial, purple and with hairs, in a whorl with yellowish bracts , the right peduncles in the flowering, inclined in the fruiting. The flower of about 1.5 cm in diameter, hermaphrodite , with 5 lilac or violet petals and 3 purple nerves, similar in length to the sepals , with the apex sinuado or pointed, fall soon, but usually Be preserved in the beak of the fruit, 5 sepals yellowish green with hairy tips, The fruit within 5 sepals , in the form of porrita, 1 cm in length. When the beak ripens and opens into 5 needles, these are rolled up like a corkscrew which acts as a propeller for transport. The peak reaches 10 cm in length. Leaves bipinnate, hairy, with lobes widening towards the bottom of the stems, also lengthening the petioles , with hair. Rigid, purple stems with bald and glandular hairs, long and visible, emerge radially from a deep and deep root and between numerous leaves with long petiole .
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Geraniales
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Family: Geraniaceae
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Genus: Erodium
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