Common Name

Oval Crowfoot, Oval Herons Bill

Family

Geraniaceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb to 50cm tall. Leaves basal and opposite each other, sometimes with cordate basal lobes, to 5cm long, to 40mm wide, flat, sticky, hairy, with 5-7 toothed shallow lobes. Flowers deep pink to mauve, with 5 petals, in umbels of 5-7 on stalks arising from the bases of the leaves.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 432

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

Photo of flowers. Photographer Alvesgaspar, unknown place