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

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Literature and References

Notes

Erodium ruthenicum Bieb.

Perennial, greyish from dense indumentum and numerous standing out and downward directing bristly hairs; eglandular; stem 20-70 cm ascending or procumbent, branched.

Leaves: Leaf outline prolonged ovate, more or less heart shape, to 8 cm wide, 7 cm long, lower blade pinnately dissected with one free pair of leaflets at the leaf base, upper pinnatifid or lobed with deeply lobed segments; segment parts and lobes large serrate.

Inflorescence: Umbels many-flowered, 3-13 flowers 2.5 cm across, violet with a red mid vein; sepals 5-6 mm, 9 mm in fruit, with long mucro 2-3 mm; petals prolonged obovate 14-16mm.

Fruit: fruit 5-7.6 cm; mericarp 6 mm with no furrow beneath the foveole; rostrum 45-70 mm.

Distribution: endemic to S Russian steppes in podsols; sandy and stony places in European part around Black Sea (Bessarabia); Georgia, far west near coast of Black Sea and Russian border.

Erodium ruthenicum; Karlivs'kyi, Poltava, Ukraine; May 27, 2010; Photo Credit: Denis Davydov; from iNaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Erodium ruthenicum; Bashtans'kyi, Mykolayiv, Ukraine; May 22, 2021; Poto credit: Roman; from iNaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)