Erodium hoefftianum

Leaves: Petiole to 8cm, (though basal leaves petiole to 15cm, blade 5cm) leaves oblong to oblong-ovate in outline, to 6cm long, pinnately incised to the middle or less, often with a pair of free leaflets at the base, sometimes with intercalary leaflets, leaflets triangular-ovate with lanceolate or lanceolate-triangular incised-toothed lobes, rather sharp toothed, leaf-blade often rather dark-marked along the veins above.

Inflorescence: Umbels of 1-8 flowers, sepals 4-6mm, mucro 2mm; petals 7-9mm, violet-blue to rose lilac, often reddish veined; stigma silvery-hairy at base.

Fruit: Beak 6-7.5cm long; mericarp 6-7.5mm, with a glandular foveole and no furrow. 2n=18

Distribution: grows in sandy and gravelly places in semi-desserts and foothills in the south of the European part of the former USSR, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Central Europe: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Makedonija, Moldova, South European Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia including Kosovo and Vojvodina, Transcaucasia (Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia), Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.