Japanese name: オランダフウロ（阿蘭陀風露） Scientific name:Erodium cicutarium var. cicutarium
[Overview]
An annual or biennial 10–50 cm tall, found along sunny roadsides and in fields.
The whole plant is covered with coarse white hairs.
The stems and leaves have an unpleasant smell.
There are basal leaves and stem leaves; the basal leaves are 2-pinnately compound, 3–15 cm long and 1–4 cm wide.
The stem leaves are opposite and 2-pinnately compound.
Long flower stalks extend from the leaf axils and bear 3–12 flowers in a cyme.
The flowers are reddish purple or white, 5-petaled, and 1–2 cm across.
The fruit is a long beaked capsule.
[History]
It was introduced as an ornamental in the late Edo period.
