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 subintegrifolium Hock

Annual; 10-40cm; sparingly patulous or retrorsely hirsute, sometimes glabrescent; stems few, erect or ascending, simple or sparingly branched.

Erodium subintegrifolium; near Haifa, Israel: 22/02/2019; Photo Credit: Yael Orgad; from inaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Leaves: Leaves 4-7cm long; leaf blade long ovate to oblong, cordate at base, appressed hairy, with sessile golden glands, those of lower leaves dentate-crenate or more or less shallowly lobed, those of stem leaves usually 3-5-fid or-lobed; rarely all leaves undivided; stipules 4-8mm, ovate, brownish.

Erodium subintegrifolium;  Photo by Ori Fragman-Sapir: from the IGG Facebook Group, Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) ‎

Inflorescence: Peduncles much longer than leaves; umbels 3-7 flowered; bracts membranous, broadly ovate, acutish; pedicels much longer than the flowers; sepals 6-8mm, papillose to patulose-hirsute, ending in mucro 1mm tipped with a bristle; petals c. 2x sepals, lilac-pink; filaments pink, glabrous; anthers dark purple; pollen orange; stigma pink; flowers March-April.

Erodium subintegrifolium; near Haifa, Israel: 26/01/2019; Photo Credit: Yael Orgad; from inaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Fruit: beak 5-8cm; Mericarps 6-7mm, appressed hairy, foveoles smooth, without furrows beneath

Erodium subintegrifolium;  Photo by Ori Fragman-Sapir: from the IGG Facebook Group, Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)

Erodium subintegrifolium;  Photo by Ori Fragman-Sapir: from the IGG Facebook Group, Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)

Distribution: endemic to Israel; Sharon Plain, Philistean Plain; rare, in grassy places & coastal scrub.