Erodium brachycarpum

Foothill filaree

Family: Geraniaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Foothill filaree is a naturalized annual found in the California Floristic Province in dry, open or disturbed sites at elevations below 1,000 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces delicate pink flowers with darker pink veins, each petal slightly larger than the bristly-tipped sepals. Growing with ascending stems 10 to 60 centimeters tall that are slightly glandular-hairy, it spreads across open ground with a branching habit. Its leaves are deeply lobed with segments 7 to 11 millimeters wide, forming an ovate outline with veins that are short and appressed-hairy. The distinctive fruit develops a body 6 to 8 millimeters long, featuring round pits and a style column extending 5 to 8 centimeters.

Habitat: Dry, open or disturbed sites

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: < 1000 m

Bioregions: CA-FP

California counties: San Luis Obispo, Butte, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Barbara, Riverside, Fresno, Ventura, Santa Clara, Humboldt, Sonoma, Marin, San Diego, Napa, Tuolumne, Amador, Santa Cruz, San Joaquin, San Francisco, Madera, Tulare, San Bernardino, Yuba, Colusa, Monterey, Mariposa, El Dorado, Sacramento, Placer, Solano, Tehama, Alameda, Sutter, Glenn, Merced, Stanislaus, Contra Costa, Kings, Shasta, Trinity, Lake, San Mateo, San Benito, Yolo, Mendocino

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.