Erodium tataricum

Erodium

and California

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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

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Notes

Erodium tataricum Willd.

Perennial; stemless; root thick like small fingers, brownish, apex crowded with petiole and stipules.

Leaves: Leaves 3-6 x 1.5-2cm long, lanceolate-ovate, pinnate, pinnae opposite, deeply pinnatifid, ultimate leaflets narrow linear entire but tip tripartite, no intercalary leaflets, usually hairless but can be rarely hairy, petiole pubescent.

Erodium tataricum; Shirinsky District, Khakassia, Russia; 23/07/2019; Photo credit: alzov: from iNaturalist.org licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Inflorescence: Peduncles 2-6 flowered, radical, pubescent and canescent; sepals pubescent, oblong, margin villose-ciliate, short mucronate; sepals 6-7 mm; mucro c. 1 mm; petals 8-16 mm, obovate, deep blue or violet, 2x calyx, 2 upper petals larger; fertile stamens glabrous; sterile filaments margin ciliate.

Fruit: Fruit 3.5-5cm; carpels 7mm; foveole without a fold; flowers July to August.

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Distribution: endemic to Asia: Russia: Khakassia., Tatarstan Transbaikal In stony and gravelly steppes of 500-1000m.

Erodium tataricum; Shirinsky District, Khakassia, Russia; 09/08/2015; Photo credit: Aleksandr Ebel: from iNaturalist.org licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)