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 hesperium (Maire)H.Lindb.

Perennial; root not tuberous.

Leaves: Leaves, grey-green, triangular, basal leaves not much lobed, toothed, stem leaves more cut, upper leaves pinnatisect and lanceolate; stipules scarious whitish-pink.

Inflorescence: Annual flowering stems grow out rather horizontally; bracts narrow, free, finely hairy; umbels of 4-8 flowers on thin peduncles, about 3cm across, violet, fading blue-violet; sepals 3-5 nerved, mucro 1-2 mm.

Fruit: rostrum 4-6 cm, with 8-10 turns to the released awn; mericarp has no infrafoveolar furrow. 2n=40

Distribution:  endemic to S. W. Morocco, Agadir, in dunes

Erodium hesperium; on dunes near the mouth of the river Massa; Photo credit: Philippe Geniez;  licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Erodium hesperium; on dunes near the mouth of the river Massa; Photo credit: Philippe Geniez;  licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Erodium hesperium; on dunes near the mouth of the river Massa; Photo credit: Philippe Geniez;  licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).