1. A low-growing plant with small pink or purple flowers and needle-like seed pods, native to the Mediterranean and common in dry regions of the southwestern United States.
Usage: Also called filaree or filaria; Botanical name: Erodium cicutarium; Often found in arid and semi-arid climates

Examples

• The alfileria spread across the desert landscape after the spring rains.
• Ranchers consider alfileria a useful forage plant for livestock in dry seasons.
• The needle-like seed pods of alfileria are distinctive and easily recognized.
• Alfileria thrives in poor soil where many other plants cannot survive.
• The pink flowers of alfileria bloom in late spring throughout the Southwest.