Pelargonium incarnatum

Pelargonium incarnatum, sometimes commonly known as the ring storksbill, in Afrikaans horlosies (watches) and previously as Erodium incarnatum, is a sprawling, weak-branched perennial, reaching 30 cm in height. The sometimes prostrate plant resprouts from its underground rootstock after fire.

The species distribution is in the southwest of the Western Cape from the Worcester to the Kogelberg and the Riviersonderend Mountains.

The habitat is rocky fynbos slopes on sandstone, the plants often growing under bigger shrubs. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Marais, (Ed.), 2017; Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; iNaturalist; http://pza.sanbi.org; http://redlist.sanbi.org).