Erodium fumarioides Stev.

Perennial, dioecious herbs, covered in fine grey recurved appressed hairs, eglandular.

Leaves: leaves oblong, pubescent, pinnatisect below up to middle, with intercalary leaflets, pinnatipartite in the upper part, pinnae pinnatifid, lacinae incised, obtuse.

Erodium fumarioides; Gunibskiy rayon, Dagestan, Russia; May 20, 2009; Photo credit: demons1312; from iNaturalist.org; Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Inflorescence: Umbels on ascending, branching flowering stems, 10-25 cm; sepals 5-6mm, 13mm in fruit, villous, sub-muticous; petals 11-13mm, emarginate, violet, veined; anthers yellow; stigma orange.

Erodium fumarioides; Gunibskiy rayon, Dagestan, Russia; May 20, 2009; Photo credit: demons1312; from iNaturalist.org; Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Fruit: fruit 30-40mm; mericarp 9mm; foveole without furrow.

Erodium fumarioides: Botlikhskiy rayon, Dagestan, Russia (North Caucasus) (c) ramazan_murtazaliev, iNaturalist (CC BY-NC)

Distribution: Northern Caucasus; at 1300-2200m on stony and rocky slopes: Russia; Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, Dagestan.

Notes: Leaves appear not to be typical Absinthioidea but approaching entire in the upper half, more like E. ciconium