Erodium reichardii

Leaves 0.5-1.8 x 0.4-1 cm, green, glabrescent or sparsely hairy, entire and crenate/coarsely toothed, and cordate; petiole 2-3cm; stipules 1-2.5mm, triangular lanceolate, glabrous, brown.

Inflorescence: Inflorescence with nearly always 1, very occasionally with 2 flowers; bracts 2, 1.2-2.5mm, free, glabrous or ciliate towards the base, brown; pedicel with appressed or spreading hairs; sepals 2.3-3.5mm, with eglandular hairs on the abaxial surface; mucro 0.1-0.2mm; petals 4-7mm, white or slightly pinkish, usually with purple veins; nectaries yellow-green; staminodes whitish, glabrous; stamen filaments whitish, glabrous; anthers pink; pollen yellow; stigmas whitish-yellow. Flowers April to August.

Fruit: fruit 10.2-13.7mm; mericarp 2.5-3mm, brown; foveole with subsessile glands, without a furrow. 2n=20

Distribution: endemic to Balearic islands, Gorge Blau, Massanella, Cap Formentor, damp rocks in sight of the sea (fresh water springs keep the rocks damp), 20-1400m.

Erodium reichardii, alpine house, Kew; Photo: Benjamin Coultrup

Erodium reichardii: Photo: David Eickhoff: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license (CC BY 2.0)

Erodium reichardii, originally collected in Majorca (limestone cliff near sea level.) Photo credit: Andrew Clarke; from the IGG Facebook Group, Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)