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 absinthoides Willd. (sens strict.) (Syn. E. absinthoides subsp absinthoides Willd.)

This has leafy grey stems, with shortly adpressed hairs.

Leaves are narrowly oblong, length 2 to 4 times their width, with segments laxly and deeply 2 pinnate into lanceolate acute lobes, densely canescent giving the leaves a silvery grey colour.

Inflorescence: The flowering stems bear 1 to 12 peduncles of white flowers with notched petals in June. Sepals are hairy with a long mucro 2 - 2.8 mm, not glandular; stamen filaments greenish; anthers greenish to pink; pollen yellow to orange; beak is 4 to 4.5cm.

Distribution: This species is found at relatively low level, at between 100 and 1600m, in steppe, in western central Turkey: provinces Ankara, Isparta, Kirşehir, Konya, and Kütahya.