Erodium cicutarium (L.) L’Hér.
(Common Stork’s-bill)

Interactions where Erodium cicutarium is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
		is parasitised by			Sphaerotheca erodii		Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Sphaerotheca erodii/	Sphaerotheca erodii						Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium cicutarium/	Erodium cicutarium	common stork's-bill								parasitises
leaf (live)		live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous colony of sporangium			Peronospora erodii	a downy mildew	Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae	New or interesting British fungi, Dennis, R.W.G. & Wakefield, E.M., 1946 Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 A Checklist of the Downy Mildews (Peronosporaceae) of the British Isles, Preece, T.F., 2002	/Chromista/Oomycota/Peronosporea/Peronosporales/Peronosporaceae/Peronospora erodii/	Peronospora erodii	a downy mildew		hypophyllous	colony	sporangium	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium cicutarium/	Erodium cicutarium	common stork's-bill		live	leaf				(6-9)	hypophyllous colony of sporangium parasitises live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph			Ramularia geranii var erodii	an anamorphic fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Ramularia geranii var. erodii/	Ramularia geranii var. erodii	an anamorphic fungus			colony	Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium cicutarium/	Erodium cicutarium	common stork's-bill		live	leaf					colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by usually hypophyllous colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph			Ramularia geranii var geranii	an anamorphic fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Ramularia geranii var. geranii/	Ramularia geranii var. geranii	an anamorphic fungus		usually hypophyllous	colony	Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium cicutarium/	Erodium cicutarium	common stork's-bill		live	leaf		Rare			usually hypophyllous colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf

Author & Year	Title	Source
Braun, U., 1998	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II	Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes, 2, 493pp, IHW-Verlag
Dennis, R.W.G. & Wakefield, E.M., 1946	New or interesting British fungi	TBMS Vol 29 (3): 141-166.
Dennis, R.W.G., 1995	Fungi of the South East England	383pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Ing, B., 1990	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews	Mycologist Vol 4 (1) et seq.
Preece, T.F., 2002	A Checklist of the Downy Mildews (Peronosporaceae) of the British Isles	33pp, British Mycological Society

Erodium cicutarium (Common Stork’s-bill) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Erodium
(stork’s-bills)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Erodium cicutarium (Common Stork’s-bill)
Genus	Erodium (stork’s-bills)
Family	GERANIACEAE (geraniums and storksbills)
Order	GERANIALES (geraniums and storksbills)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Erodium cicutarium is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Geraniaceae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Erodium cicutarium (Common Stork’s-bill)

Erodium cicutarium (Common Stork’s-bill) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Erodium
(stork’s-bills)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Erodium cicutarium (Common Stork’s-bill):

Erodium
(stork’s-bills)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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