Erodium glaucophyllum (L.)L’Her.

Clade I; Subclade 1; Subgenus Erodium; Section Erodium

Perennial; root often swollen like a tuber, but well below ground, tubers elongate; glaucous subshrub to 50cm; stems branching

Erodium glaucophyllum, south-west Morocco. Photo credit : Abdelmonaim Homrani Bakali,  licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Leaves glabrescent or puberulent, almost yellowish green, entire, round crenate, rather thick, almost succulent.

Inflorescence: Flowering stems annual, branching, reaching 50cm, and bearing umbels of 3-4 flowers1.5cm across, intense pink; sepals mucronate, appressed hairy at nerves.

Erodium glaucophyllum, south-west Morocco. Photo credit : Abdelmonaim Homrani Bakali,  licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Fruit: Beak to 9.5cm, foveoles with 2 slight ridges; awn soft feather, hairs of equal length.
2n=20 Guitt. and Zohary

Erodium glaucophyllum, south-west Morocco. Photo credit : Abdelmonaim Homrani Bakali,  licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Distribution: endemic to N Africa, introduced to Southern Italy, France. Flowers spring, habitat : valleys about the Dead Sea, and Judean Wilderness to Sinai and Egypt; rather common in deserts especially in soils rich in gypsum: East Aegean Islands, Algeria, Crete, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Morocco, Tunisia

Erodium glaucophyllum, south-west Morocco. Photo credit : Abdelmonaim Homrani Bakali,  licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).