Erodium vetteri

Densely caespitose perennial, 5-12 cm, forming hard wide hummocks; tap root thick, woody, 1cm diam., branching to surface so 1 root produces several crowns.

Leaves: Basal leaves 2-pinnatisect, canescent, blade ovate, 7-25 mm, laciniae shortly oblong, acute.

Inflorescence: Flowering stems erect or ascending, c 5cm long, leafy, crisply pubescent below, bearing 1-5 peduncles; pedicels and calyces with subsessile glands and long eglandular hairs; sepals 4-6 mm in flower, pilose and with subsessile glands, or patently glandular-hirsute; mucro 0.2-0.5 mm; petals white with green veins, 7-8 mm; stamen filaments white; anthers yellow; stigmas greenish.

Fruit: beak c. 3 cm

Habitat: among dry rocks on peaks on Greek island Samos.

Notes: This is often listed as a subspecies of E. sibthorpianum but is obviously different. Samos is about 700km from Uludag