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Erodium botrys (longbeak stork's bill)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Erodium botrys is a species of flowering plant in the geranium family known by the common names longbeak stork's bill, Mediterranean stork's-billl and broadleaf filaree.
View Wikipedia Record: Erodium botrys

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Early Spring
Drought Tolerance [1]  High
Fire Tolerance [1]  None
Frost Free Days [1]  8 months
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  High
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Spring
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Spring
Growth Form [1]  Single Crown
Growth Period [1]  Spring, Fall, Winter
Growth Rate [1]  Rapid
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [1]  Annual/Biennial
Propagation [1]  Seed
Regrowth Rate [1]  Moderate
Root Depth [1]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Rapid
Seed Vigor [1]  High
Seeds Per [1]  849998 / lb (1873927 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Prostrate
Structure [2]  Herb
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  None
Flower Color [1]  Purple
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Fruit Color [1]  Brown
Fall Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Flower Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Fruit Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Height [1]  8 inches (0.2 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 8 Low Temperature: 10 F° (-12.2 C°) → 20 F° (-6.7 C°)
Light Preference [1]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [1]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [1]  Intermediate
Water Use [1]  Moderate
Screening - Summer [1]  Porous
Screening - Winter [1]  Porous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Flinders Chase National Park II 81245 South Australia, Australia
San Dimas Biosphere Reserve 17161 California, United States  
Table Mountain   California, United States      

Predators

Berytinus montivagus[3]
Calyptorhynchus baudinii (Long-billed Black Cockatoo)[4]
Thomomys bottae (Botta's pocket gopher)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 4BirdLife International (2012) Species factsheet: Calyptorhynchus baudinii. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 06/09/2012.
♦ 5Thomomys bottae, Cheri A. Jones and Colleen N. Baxter, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 742, pp. 1–14 (2004)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0