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 anthemidifolium Bieb.

Dioecious perennial herb; root vertical; flowering stem branching, diffuse.

Leaves: leaves similar to E. alpinum: oblong bipinnatisect with intercalary leaflets, grey-white: leaflets pinnatifid, segments oblong acute, sublobate.

Inflorescence: flowering stems diffuse, elongate, leafy branching glandulose; umbels with 5-10 flowers; pedicels elongate & spreading, glandulose patulose; flowers larger than E. ciconium; sepals 5mm, (10mm in fruit) ovate with no significant mucro, 3 sepals with short terminal bristles, 2 always muticous (lacking a point), villose-viscose, glandulose; petals 9-11 mm subemarginate (slightly notched), broad obtuse, blue, nerves darker, ±2x sepal length; Flowers July. Dioecious.

Fruit: Rostrum 80 mm; mericarp 10 mm, foveole with no furrow.

Distribution: Caucasus East, Stony places

Plant like E. ciconium but hair shorter, softer, whiter, (adpressed silvery hairy), more branching and spreading; leaves more dissect.