Erodium L'Hér.

First published in W.Aiton, Hortus Kew. 2: 414 (1789)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Temp. Eurasia to Chad. SW. & S. Central U.S.A. to Mexico, Peru and Brazil to S. South America.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Argentina Northeast, Arizona, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil South, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Central European Russia, Chad, Chile Central, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Mexico, New South Wales, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northern Territory, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qinghai, Queensland, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Sinai, Somalia, South Australia, South European Russia, Spain, Sudan-South Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Texas, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Victoria, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Yemen

Introduced into:

Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Amur, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arkansas, Bolivia, British Columbia, Cape Provinces, Chatham Is., Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Ecuador, Falkland Is., Florida, Free State, Georgia, Greenland, Guatemala, Hawaii, Honduras, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Labrador, Lesotho, Louisiana, Magadan, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, Socotra, South Carolina, South Dakota, St.Helena, Taiwan, Tasmania, Tennessee, Venezuela, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS Genera starting with letter E-F: 1-50919.
  • Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.

Flora of Somalia

  • El Hadidi & al. in Pl. Syst. Evol. 144: 307–314 (1984).
  • Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
  • Guittoneau in Boissiera 20 (1972)

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection
  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images