Citation: L'Hér. ex Alton, Hort. Kew. 2:414 (1789).

Synonymy: Geranium moschatum L., Sp. Pl. edn 2, 2:951 (1763).

Common name: Musky storks bill, musky herons bill, musky crowfoot.

Description:
Ascending annual herbs with a musk smell; stems to 50 cm long, eglandular- and glandular-hairy becoming less so towards the base; the lobes ovate to elliptic, dentate; petioles to 20 mm long.

Flowers in umbels of up to 7; bracts free; peduncles to 16 cm long; pedicels to 20 mm long, densely glandular-hairy; sepals oblong, to 7 mm long; petals pink, obovate, slightly longer than the sepals; stamen filaments narrow-lanceolate, c. 3 mm long, staminodes two-thirds as long.

Mericarps to 9 mm long, covered with stiff hairs, the pit at least and usually the groove below it as well bearing large glandular hairs; awn to 3.5 cm long.

	Erodium moschatum
Image source: fig 388i in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 432.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.   A native of the Mediterranean region. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: June — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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