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 alpinum (Burm.f.)L’Her.

Plant: Perennial rootstock crowned with dwarf branched caudex and old stipules.

Leaves: Leaves mostly basal; petiole long, densely soft-hairy; blade rather less hairy, ovate in outline, bipinnatisect, lobules deeply toothed but not finely divided, with intercalary leaflets, laminules not finely divided. Stipules triquetrous lanceolate, acute, brown, margin ciliate, 7-10mm x 3mm.

Inflorescence: sparsely leafy annual flowering stems to 300mm; first peduncles long, later ones shorter; Umbels of 2-9 red or deep pink flowers, no markings; petals rather oval; staminodes hairy and ciliate.

Mericarp: foveole feebly glandular; no furrow. Beak 40-50mm. Plants androdioecious: either male only or normal bisexual.

2n=18

Habitat: endemic to Italy, Abruzzi; central mountains at 1200-2000m in open areas.

Erodium alpinum Male; Marie Addyman’s Collection at Hampton Court Show, 08/07/1993

Erodium alpinum, research beds at Cambridge Botanical Garden, 05/06/1993

Erodium alpinum - in garden in Ashford, Kent, UK- 04/06/2005