Humble wildflower - Erodium moschatum

Geranium Erodium moschatum 2.jpg

I often see this little one. A common weed you may say. But it is also pretty amazing how tough they are and how they can grow fast and spread.
Little conquerors!

Erodium moschatum

Geranium Erodium moschatum 3.jpg

Geranium Erodium moschatum 1.jpg

There is a few types of Erodium plants growing in Portugal but this one seems to be the most common one growing around the whole country. It belongs to Geranium family and can also found throughout the Europe, Asia and North America. It is not very picky as I find it growing in the lawns where there is more moisture especially at this time of the year, but also on more open spaces, near the coast on very poor and sandy soil.

Those photos I took a week ago and it was already in bloom. And judging by the amount of seeds pods (those are the link spiky things sticking out) it must have been blooming for a while. but the peak for them is still to come. Between February and end of April they will be racing to open the flowers and produce as many seeds as possible. On the wild areas where the grass is not cute regularly it will look pretty spectacular. They can grow quite tall and with large amount of tiny, purple flowers they put up quite a show.

Geranium Erodium moschatum 4.jpg

Geranium Erodium moschatum 5.jpg

Geranium Erodium moschatum 6.jpg

The seed pods are not mature here yet. Later they will dry, turn light brown and start to crack open releasing seeds. The seeds are quite funny looking too with their long shape with little hair and twisty end to help them fly away and colonize new territories.

Geranium Erodium moschatum 7.jpg

»«
_{Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens

(ƒ/13, 1/400, ISO160)

All photos and text are my own.}

»»-------------¤-------------««

_{REGISTRATION | UPVOTE VALUES | NEW MEMBERS BONUS}

To support the project
vote for @qurator as a Steemit witness on
steemit.com, or SteemConnect
Thank you.

Bang, I did it again... I just resteemed your post!Week 19 of my contest just started...you can now check the winners of the previous week!Pixresteemer is also listed as promoter on The Steemians Directory!DERANGED₈

Congratulations, Your Post Has Been Added To The Steemit Worldmap!
_{Author link: http://steemitworldmap.com?author=ewkaw
Post link: http://steemitworldmap.com?post=humble-wildflower-erodium-moschatum}

Want to have your post on the map too?

Go to Steemitworldmap
Click the code slider at the bottom
Click on the map where your post should be (zoom in if needed)
Copy and paste the generated code in your post
Congrats, your post is now on the map!

You just received DERANGED @ewkaw Keep up the great work, view all your tokens at steem-engine.com

beautiful captures with a nice tone :) I love it

Beautiful framing on this one. Its like the flower is talking.

They all talk to me
"shoot me! shoot me first!"

Congratulations @ewkaw! You have completed the following achievement on the Steem blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

You got more than 9500 replies. Your next target is to reach 9750 replies.

_{You can view your badges on your Steem Board and compare to others on the Steem Ranking}
_{If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP}

Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness to get one more award and increased upvotes!

Hello @ewkaw!
This is a great post!! We really appreciate your work and efforts.

To support your work, we have also up-voted you using our Bioportal.steem Curation Trail ✅!

We'd like to invite you to our Server: SBioP.

Our project will not be able to operate without support from people like you.
Best,
Team Biodiversity Project 🍄

^{^{By the people ⚪ For the people}}

Thank you very much :)