As children we used to play with stork’s-bill (redstem filaree) by making a slit in one ‘bill’ and then putting another into the slit to play with them as if they were scissors.  This was in El Cerrito, California, in the 1960s. [Starke, Florida, U.S.A., April 2015].

Images:  common stork’s-bill, Erodium cicutarium, Witham, Essex, May 2022; inset, musk stork’s-bill, E. moschatum, Hillside Gardens Park, London Borough of Lambeth, June 2015.