Latin: Erodium circutarium
Seed spikes
Family: Geranium (Geraniaceae)
Size: 0.25 in.
Date: 3/30/2001
Other names: heron-bill, alfilaria, clocks, redstem stork's bill, pin-clover
Notes: An early immigrant from Europe with the Spainards. Now naturalized in the southwest.
Filaree entry in the online edition of An Illustrated Guide to Arizona Weeds, Kittie F. Parker, University of Arizona Press.
This plant is found on the Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch Working Check list of flora.