Erodium daucoides

Leaves up to 8 cm, eglandular villous to glandular-pubescent, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, pinnate; leaflets ovate to ovate-lanceolate, pinnatifid or dentate; stipules whitish or pale brown.

Inflorescence: bracts lanceolate to ovate, white, somewhat hairy; peduncles 4-13 cm, umbels with 1-7 flowers; sepals 8-12 mm; petals c. 10 mm; white or light pink, upper two petals feathered dark purple. Flowers April to September.

Fruit: Mericarps 7.5-9 mm, with ascending, white hairs; apical pits shallow, with conspicuous glandular hairs, without a furrow at the base; beak 24-45 mm.

Distribution: Fissures, ledges, stony pastures, on limestone soils 800-2300 m; the south east of the Iberican Peninsula from Sierra de Alcaraz, cerro Jabalcon to NW of Sierra Nevada and Sierra de Gador

Erodium daucoides; Dornajo, Sierra Nevada, Granada, Spain; photo credit: Franz Pühringer; from iNaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Erodium daucoides; Almería, Spain; photo credit: Faluke Luke; from iNaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Erodium daucoides; Cima Cañadillas, Sierra Nevada, Granada, Spain; photo credit: Franz Pühringer; from iNaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)