Stork's bill

Storks-bill (Erodium) - Like hardy Geraniums, but usually smaller and more southern in origin. Suited for chalky banks or the rock garden, and some are suited for borders, while others may be naturalised in the grass in warm soil. Among the best species are:—

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Erodium Corsicum

Erodium Corsicum - A choice alpine species of easy culture, having tufts of grey leaves and rose-colored flowers. Four inches high. Seeds.

Erodium Macradenium

Erodium Macradenium - A dwarf Pyrenean plant, 6 to 10 inches high, with the blooms of French white delicately tinged with purple, and veined with purplish-rose; the lower petals are larger than the others; the two upper ones have each a dark spot. This plant should be exposed to the full sun, in crevices situated between two rocks, and where the roots can penetrate gritty or stony soil to the depth of 3 feet. The flowers come in abundance during the summer months, and the plant has an aromatic fragrance.

Erodium Manescavi

Erodium Manescavi - a vigorous herbaceous plant, and the most showy kind. It grows 1 to 1 1/2 feet high, and throws up strong flower-stalks above the foliage, each with seven to fifteen purplish flowers, 1 to 1 1/2 inches across. It is not fastidious as to soil or situation, but its best place is in dry soil, fully exposed. If the soil be too rich, the plant bears so many leaves that the flowers are hidden. Seed or careful division.

Now Moltkia Petraea

now Moltkia Petraea (Erodium Petraeum) - This has three to five purplish-rose flowers on each stalk, which are 4 to 6 inches high. The leaves and flower-stalks are densely clothed with minute hairs. It thrives best among the dwarfer alpine plants, in warm positions, in deep sandy or gravelly soil.

Erodium Reichardi

Erodium Reichardi - A miniature species 2 to 3 inches high when in flower. The small heart-shaped leaves lie close to the ground, and form little tufts from which arise slender stalks, each bearing a solitary white flower, marked with delicate pink veins; flowering for many weeks. It should be grown in gritty peat mixed with a small portion of loam.

Other kinds

To the foregoing may be added: E. caruifolium, 6 to 10 inches high; flowers red, about 1/2 inch in diameter, and in umbels of nine or ten blossoms. E. romanum, 6 to 9 inches high; flowers purplish, in spring and early summer. E. trichomanefolium, a pretty kind, 4 to 6 inches high, with leaves deeply cut; flowers flesh-colored, marked with darker veins. E. chrysanthum, with lemon-yellow flowers, and E. guttatum, these being mostly fitted for the warmer parts of the rock garden. E. daucoides. E. supracanum.

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