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Details:
  • Date Photo Taken

    07 / 11 / 2020

  • Season Photo Was Taken

    Summer

  • Region Photo Was Taken

    West

  • City

    Denver

  • State

    Colorado

  • Posted by

    Walter Reeves

Notes:

These lightly stick to my dog when she walks in the field by our home. But if they are not immediately removed- they burrow in, the tail breaks off, and sometimes they get into her skin. I saw another person Post a similar seed pod with a similar corkscrew tail and you suggested it could be a seed from a stork plant. I looked at the picture of the stork plant also posted- and I donÕt think IÕve seen one of those in Denver, Colorado. IÕd really like to identify the plant from which this came!

Comments

  • laura735 Master Identifier says:

    To my eyes these seeds pods have the diagnostic keys of stork-bill plant: the long slender spiral tail, and long seed pod with beak-like appearance. Check out the included link below for one of the stork-bill species that grows in CO, the redstem stork’s bill (Erodium cicutarium). Scrolling down for the distribution map. But not having the plant & its flowers, I still could be wrong. Please resubmit if you are able to find the plant(s)of these seeds pods. Best wishes! https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/forb/erocic/all.html

    July 14th, 2020 at 3:09am

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