Flowers, fruiting bodies, and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowering plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

None

Family

Geraniaceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb to 20cm tall or prostrate.  Leaves basal and opposite each other, basal leaves 1.8-3.5cm long, 7-15mm wide, flat, sticky, hairy, lobed and toothed.  Flowers pink to mauve or bluish-purple, with 5 petals, in umbels of 2-5 flowers on stalks arising from the bases of the leaves. 

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 430

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Erodium~aureum