a2, Erodium L'Her. 
Annual or perennial herbs with pinnately divided leaves, Flowers 
small, not conspicuouse Fetals rose-colored. Stamens 5, alternating 
with five sterile filaments or staminodia, Style colum beak-like, elong- 
Bud hl 
ate in fruit, the styles’ gtebrews within and spirally recoiled at maturity 
after splitting from the colum, 
1, E, cicutarium (L.) L'Her. Filaree. A low hirsute procumbent weed, 
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forming small mats; cuncate-ovate] leaflets ‘again once or twice divided; 
petals slightly longer than the sepals, pink; anther-bearing filaments not 
toothed; peduncles erect in fruit, bearing the rather conspicuous cluster 
of beak-like fruits; style column 3-4 cm. long; seeds smooth, 
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A weed of waste places and dry meadows naturalized from Europe; infreque: 
Increasingly common southward in Idaho where it was apparently well establish 
a century af0e. 
