Winecup?

Found two in my yard, smack in the middle of a patch of weeds. Is my id correct (callirhoe digitata)? I need to know how/when to move them.
Mary

Your plant doesn't look like winecup http://wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=1525
It looks more like a wild geranium don't know which one, it is very pretty you should try to save it.
Josephine.

i should have looked further down then I would not have asked so many dumb questions

What dumb questions?

There are no dumb questions here. :)

Grits, I think you posted on the wrong thread.

Jo I posted on the one above this where Tx gardener was trying to post a pic and then saw her post here so I got a little confused

No problem, it 's all good.

Yes, the link is to a winecup, but your flower looks like a geranium, but who knows? we shall see later I guess.

I have to agree with Josephine. There are a few pictures of 'wild geranium' that look similar to your bloom.
http://wildflower.org/gallery/species.php?id_plant=GEMA

TXgardener, you appear to possibly be trying to ID the same plant I found growing in mass yesterday at Lake Proctor. I am assuming they were planted by the Army Corps of Engineers or someone else since I've never seen them anywhere else in the area. They definitely aren't winecups and definitely not the wild geranium mentioned above.

I think it may be Texas Storkbill, Erodium texanum,
http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/bio406d/images/pics/ger/erodium_texanum.htm
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/77415/
It is a member of the geranium family.

My apologies, I pasted the incorrect link before.

http://wildflower.org/plants/search.php?search_field=scientific+or+common+names&newsearch=true&family=Geraniaceae

Well, that sure is pretty, I wish I had some.
Josephine.

I'm seeing them this year a lot of places I haven't noticed them before. I'm not sure that means anyone planted them, just that we've had such conducive weather this spring.

frostweed, there are probably some around up there in a field or vacant lot...

Im finding them on my property so I know they werent planted but I cant remember seeing them before, most definitely resemble a geranium even the foliage. I have seen a few winecups which are my favorite, I just love them.

I agree, bettydee, that seems very like it. I'm also seeing this plant for the first time and the side of the street up by a couple of neighbors has a very large population. Mine are now developing what may be seed pods -- I'm gonna rig up some kind of "catcher" for those and try germinating 'em. Wish me luck! And my yard is full of weeds but every time I think about mowing them down I find something I don't want to mow -- the latest being (no pics yet) gaillardia (sp?) -- so I'm out as long and often as possible hand weeding around my "desirables/keepers"

TX_gardener I think we all fall victim to the "But it's soooo pretty!" mentality. :)

You should see our pastures right now — wildflowers every where — but the grass is beginning to suffer. I wish I could gather seed, but cattle are such curious creatures that they wouldn't leave anything I set up alone. I keep putting off preparing the pastures for summer grasses because I'd like some reseeding before I do. The best I may be able to do is to prepare the fields for the grass. Then buy wildflower seed in the fall and re-sow. I need to see if I can find Erodium texanum seed as well. That I could sow in the back yard.

Its hard to tell from the pictures but do they grow in kind of a mound? Thats what mine are doing sprawling outwards.

Lisa, my plant looks like the 1st pic, top row, of bettydee's link http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/bio406d/images/pics/ger/erodium_te... and further down, under "rosette of leaves in Winter--these leaves are easily spotted in Winter!" this does not look like mine; of course I realize that they're talking winter, but even the leaves look different.

Still haven't looked at my "how to book" for seed catching ideas. Gotta go garden now, the sun's up!!

That's what mine looks like also, they don't grow upward but outward. I have seen the plants in the winter but didn't realize what they were going to grow up to be lol.

I'm seeing more this year then I have in the past and the plants are much larger this year. Mine aren't blooming yet, but the foliage is definatly the same.

One of my neighbors just mowed down the biggest patch around here! I'm seeing lots of wildflowers here in town and close by that I've never noticed b4.

Yes, the rains have worked miracles.

I found a hairless cat. on one are they a host plant?

I am sure they are a host to some butterfly or moth, most plants are, but I don't know which one.

OK, thanks! I realize that I have had these plants around all along. I recognize the picture of the smaller plants. But I didnt realize they were the same plant that Im seeing now. The book I have says they start to trail when they start to bloom.

Lisa, "hairless cat" -- evidently not the 4-legged variety!

Lol no. This one was also munching on the plant. There was poop so he must of had friends. I'll have to check. On my wonderings today I saw the actual Stork Bill fruit. I don't remember a flower but it was probably smaller then I was looking for. I'm really enjoying the nice weather and checking this stuff out. My poppies are starting to bloom, I know they aren't native but the corn poppies are sow pretty. We haven't gotten any rain lately so they aren't very big, but I'll take what I can get.