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 rodiei at Wisley Garden, UK; 10/07/2005; Photo Credit: Benjamin Coultrup

Erodium rodiei at Wisley Garden, UK; 10/07/2005; Photo Credit: Benjamin Coultrup

Erodium rodiei in the Alp Maritime, France; Photo credit: Dyoke van Assum; from the IGG Facebook Group, Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)

Erodium rodiei (Br-Bl)Poiron

Perennial herb, with a long taproot with a red-brown skin; crown of tufted dwarf stems barely above ground level but not dying down in winter.

Leaf: leaf lamina 3-5cm, ovate in outline, dissected to linear pinnules, and with intercalary leaflets; Petiole rather long; stipules adnate on half or more of their length, triangular or broadly triangular.

Inflorescence: Umbels of 2-10 flowers, 2.5-3cm diameter; petals more than 15 mm, deep pink, subequal, round tipped, veins same colour as petals; nectaries equal, sub-bilobed, wider than tall; staminodes pink; stamen filaments pink; anthers purple; pollen orange; stigma purple.

Fruit: Rostrum 3-4.5cm; mericarp 7-10mm; foveole auriculate in appearance, not ciliate bordered; cotyledons trilobed. 2n=20 Guitt

Distribution: endemic to France (Alps-Maritimes, Grasse) at 900-1100m, on dolomite and marble cliffs.