Erodium guiccardii

Leaves: Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, acute, 5-10 x 3mm, adnate to the base of the petiole, glabrescent, brown; basal leaves to 25cm, silvery grey-green, bipinnate, with intercalary leaflets, final leaf segments scimitar-lanceolate.

Inflorescence: Annual flowering stems leafy with reduced and untypical leaves, few branched, prostrate, silvery-tomentose; flowers in umbels of 2-7, about 2cm across, bright satin pink, petals rather pointed. Flowers late July and August

Fruit: Beak 4.5-6.5cm. 2n=18

Distribution: endemic to North Greece, the alpine region of Veluchi, at 1700-2300m; dry alpine pastures,: Mts Velugo

Note: There are plants in cultivation labelled E. guiccardii which are hybrids of E. guiccardii and another species.

Differs from E. elatum. E. elatum has leaves which are oblong and 2-3 pinnatisect, with narrower leaf segments, green to grey green, flower colour; pink to blush violet with more rounded petals, and flowering time - elatum flowers early in April and May.

Labelled as Erodium guiccardii but probably a hybrid; Marie Addymans Collection at Hampton Court Show: 08/07/1993

Erodium guicciardii; Mount Tymfristos, Greece

Erodium elatum; West Macedonia Region, Greece; April 29, 2017; photo credit: Todd Boland; from iNaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)