Erodium foetidum

Erodium foetidum; 11540 Roquefort-des-Corbières, France; 09/04/2012; Photo credit: Guillaume Papuga; from iNaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Erodium foetidum (L)L’Her.

Clade II; Subclade 4; Section Foetida; foetidum series.

Perennial, 5-35cm, sub shrub or tufted; plant glandular hairy, the leaves have a strong odour

Inflorescence: Umbels of 2-4 flowers; bracts 4-7, free; petals 10.5-12 mm (corolla of 1-2 cm in diameter), subequal, overlapping, pink with violet veins, no blotch; nectaries equal, sub-bilobed, wider than tall.

Leaves 3-8cm, ovate to triangular-ovate, bi- or tri-pinnatisect, with intercalary leaflets, green or grey-green above and below, rather cedar-scented if bruised, leaflets have ultimate divisions in the plane of the blade and have glandular hairs. Stipules 7-10mm, adnate on half or more of their length, triangular or broadly triangular.

Fruit: Mericarps 5-6 mm with subcircular foveoles and has outer edge ciliate; rostrum 18-25mm. 2n=20

Distribution: endemic to France, near the coast on calcareous rocks of the Narbonais and Pic St Comp near Montpellier.

Erodium foetidum; 11170 Moussoulens, France; 23/4/13: Photo Credit: yvesbas: from iNaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)