Erodium

and California

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Erodium

Classification

Species

Clade I, Subclade 1

Subgenus Erodium

 - Section Erodium

 - Section Oxyrynchia

 - stephanianum group

Clade I, Subclade 2

Subgenus Barbata

 - Section  Absinthoidea

Clade II, Subclade 3

 - cygnorum group

Clade II, Subclade 4

 - botrys group

 - Section Cicutaria,

   - Subsection Cicutaria

   - Subsection Acaulia

 - Section Malacoidea

   - Subsection Reichardia

   - Subsection Malacoidea

 - Section Foetida

California

Literature and References

Notes

Erodium cinereum Boiss. & Heldr.

Perennial; entire plant covered in short adpressed hairs; caespitose to the root, neck clothed with old petioles; stem tufts branching, leafy

Leaves: Radical leaves dense, congested, petiolate; lamina outline oblong, bipinnatisect; laciniae oblong-linear, acute; cauline leaves sessile, pinnatisect, laciniae few; stipules scarious, very small.

Inflorescence: Umbels of 8-10 flowers, pedicels thin, thinly and patent glandulose-hispid; sepals oblong-elliptic, very short mucronate, black striped, few and short hispid-viscose hairs, margin membranaceous; petals rose-pink, 2x calyx; flowers in June

Fruit: Carpels adpressed white villose, beak eglandulose hairy, 40mm

Distribution: In sunny clay in between Egridir and Koniah, central Turkey.