Erodium rupestre

Erodium

and California

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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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Erodium rupestre near Solsonès, Lleida, Spain; 13/06/2016; Photo credit: Isidre Blanc: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Erodium rupestre In Busa (Navès - Solsonès -Catalunya), Spain, to 1.315 m altitude; 10/06/2017; Photo credit: Isidre Blanc: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Erodium rupestre In Montsec de Rúbies (Pallars Jussà- Catalunya), Spain, to 1.460 m. altitude; 30/05/2016; Photo credit: Isidre Blanc: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Erodium rupestre In Clot de Vilamala (Solsonès -Catalunya), Spain, to 1.180 m. altitude; 30/05/2016; Photo credit: Isidre Blanc: licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Erodium rupestre (Pourret) Marcet.

Perennial herb 6-28cm.

Leaves: basal leaves with lamina 2-10 cm, triangular-ovate, bipinnatisect with intercalary leaflets, with stiff adpressed eglandular hairs on upper surface, so the upper surface appears silver, lower surface green, glabrous; ultimate divisions linear to linear-eliptical, in the same plane as the leaf; petiole 5-20cm; stipules 7-9mm, lanceolate, usually glabrous, green or brown

Inflorescence: Umbels of 2-5 flowers; bracts 5-8, 3-5mm, free, with adpressed hairs on the outer surface, whitish; pedicel with dense adpressed hairs; sepals 5-6.5mm,with dense adpressed hairs on lower surface; mucro 0.5-0.8mm; petals 7.5-10mm, ± equal, one-coloured, whitish or pale pink with purple veins, the 2 upper petals with veins more marked, not spotted or a little marked; nectaries green-brown; staminodes whitish and hairy; stamen filaments pinkish at the tip, hairy at the base; anthers purple; pollen coral pink; stigmas yellowish to pink. Flowers March to October.

Fruit: fruit 21-38mm; rostrum 18-25 mm; mericarps 5-7mm, brown; foveole with sessile or short stalked glands, without a furrow. 2n=20

Distribution: endemic to NE Spain, in dry chalky rocks at about 1000m, foothills of the Spanish side of the Pyrenees; Spanish provinces Barcelona, Huesca, Lerida.