Erodium daucoides

Leaves up to 8 cm, lanceolate, pinnate, green. Leaflets ovate-lanceolate, pinnatifid to dentate, with segments ovate to ovate-lanceolate. Stipules brown or whitish.

Inflorescence: Umbels of 3-6 flowers; bracts lanceolate to ovate, slightly pubescent; peduncles 4-13 cm, sepals 8-12 mm; petals 6-12 mm; white or light pink, upper two petals feathered dark purple. Flowers April to September.

Fruit: Rostrum 25-30 mm; mericarps 7-8 mm; foveoles with no furrow beneath. 2n=20, 40, 60

Distribution: Fissures, ledges, stony pastures, on limestone soils 800-2300 m; two separate distributions:

- Mountains of North to east of the Cordillera Catabrica, Montes Vascos, Systema Iberico etc;

- The south east of the Iberican Peninsula from Sierra de Alcaraz, cerro Jabalcon to NW of Sierra Nevada and Sierra de Gador

Notes: locations of chromosome counts: 2n=60: Sierra Neveda (Granada) at 2000m (type location): 2n=20: Sa Fraile (Palencia) at 2000m; 2n=40: Yelma de Segura (Jaen) at 1800m (mistakenly under E. paui in Guitt 1972), and at Santiago de Silos (Burgos) at 1100m.