Synonyms:

• Basionym: Geranium cicutarium L.

Common names:

• alfilaria  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• common crowfoot  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• common erodium  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• common heron's-bill  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• common stork's-bill  (Source: BSBI) - English
• heron's-bill  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• red-stem filaree  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• stork's-bill  (Source: HPl Mary) - English
• dahmiyet el-ghazal  (Source: F Egypt) - Arabic

Economic Importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases ()
• Animal food: fodder ()
• Medicines: folklore ()
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals ()
• Weed: potential seed contaminant (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968; Invasive Pl Spec)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal, [Madeira Islands] Spain [Canary Islands]
• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Kuwait
• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Egypt, [Sinai] Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia, [Eastern Siberia (w.)] Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
• CHINA: China [Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jiangsu, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan (w.), Xinjiang]
• EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India (n.w.), Nepal, Pakistan (n.)

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece (incl. Crete), Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain (incl. Baleares)


Cultivated

Northern America

• North America

Southern America

• South America


Naturalized

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal [Azores]
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa

Asia-Temperate

• RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation-Far East [Far East (natzd.?)]

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia
• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Northern America

• Canada, Mexico, United States

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]

Southern America

• CENTRAL AMERICA: Central America
• South America


Other (exact native range obscure)

References:

1. Botanical Society of the British Isles BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). (BSBI)
2. Boulos, L. Flora of Egypt. 1999- (F Egypt)
3. Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. 1993 (L Peru)
4. Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown Herbaceous plants of Maryland. 1984 (HPl Mary)
5. Chowdhery, H. J. & B. M. Wadhwa Flora of Himachal Pradesh. (F Himachal)
6. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables. 1974 (Weed TabCIBA)
7. Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998 (Cooper & Johnson ed2)
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14. Holm, L. et al. A geographical atlas of world weeds. 1979 (Atlas WWeed)
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Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image