Sabino Canyon 2/17/19 Filaree Flower Sabino Canyon 2/13/16 Filaree Flower Filaree Flower Filaree Plant Sabino Mountain Community. 1/31/16 Filaree Leaves Sabino Mountain Community. 1/31/16 Filaree Stem Sabino Mountain Community. 1/31/16 Filaree Plant


Wildflowers of Southern Arizona


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Filaree.
Erodium cicutarium.
Geranium (Geraniaceae) family.

Introduced into California in 18th century by Spaniards, Filaree is one of earliest wildflowers to bloom in the spring. The flowers are 1/4 inch (0.6 cm) wide and have 5 petals and 5 sepals. The developing green seeds look like a stork bill. The mature seeds are point-tipped and have a coiling and uncoiling tail that self-buries them when they get wet. The leaves are in a flat basal rosette and are dark green and pinnate with pinnately cleft leaflets. The stems are reddish and hairy.

Saguaro National Park East
3/21/15

Notes: Found in Sabino Mountain Community, 1/31/16. Sabino Canyon Bluff Trail 2/17/19.

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