Erodium anthemidifolium Bieb.
Dioecious perennial herb; root vertical; flowering stem branching, diffuse.
Leaves: leaves similar to E. alpinum: oblong bipinnatisect with intercalary leaflets, grey-white: leaflets pinnatifid, segments oblong acute, sublobate.
Inflorescence: flowering stems diffuse, elongate, leafy branching glandulose; umbels with 5-10 flowers; pedicels elongate & spreading, glandulose patulose; flowers larger than E. ciconium; sepals 5mm, (10mm in fruit) ovate with no significant mucro, 3 sepals with short terminal bristles, 2 always muticous (lacking a point), villose-viscose, glandulose; petals 9-11 mm subemarginate (slightly notched), broad obtuse, blue, nerves darker, ±2x sepal length; Flowers July. Dioecious.
Fruit: Rostrum 80 mm; mericarp 10 mm, foveole with no furrow.
Distribution: Caucasus East, Stony places
Plant like E. ciconium but hair shorter, softer, whiter, (adpressed silvery hairy), more branching and spreading; leaves more dissect.
