Skye Flora

Erodium cicutarium agg

Photo © Carl Farmer
(8 Sep 2001 Holy Island, Northumbria)
(leaf on far left not of this species, other leaves are)
 

A rare garden weed in Skye.

Flower diameter c 6-14 mm

Skye ID: Flowers and fruits similar to Cranesbills.  Leaf divided like Cranesbills but pinnately rather than palmately, i.e. leaflets placed in opposite pairs along midrib.

Other features: Petals slightly unequal.  Leaves variable but normally divided to midrib into leaflets themselves divided more than halfway but not to base.