Erodium laciniatum

Leaves: Leaf outline oblong to ovate, sometimes triangular, deeply 3-7-lobed or pinnatifid, segments often lobed; cauline leaves often bipinnatisect;t leaves have a larger or absent curious translucent edge lacking chlorophyll which sometimes go pink; leaf lobes round-pointed, often pink; juvenile leaves may be entire but adult ones a mere strip of lamina along the veins, about 3mm wide; stipules free at leafy nodes 4(-6) mm x 4(-6)mm.

Inflorescence: bracts large, suborbicular, 6-8mm, of 2 or 3 welded plates which are scarious, glabrous, obtuse and not ciliate; flowers pink without markings; petals 1-1.5 x sepals; mucro 1-1.5 mm; staminodes glabrous.

Fruit: Mericarp; foveole eglandular, without a furrow; beak 5-7cm; awn with no long hairs. 2n=20 (Guitt.)

Distribution: N. Africa, Meditterranean region, Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and North Waziristan in Pakistan

Erodium laciniatum at HaMerkaz, Israel; Feb 19, 2019; photo credit: Ron Frumkin; from iNaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)