Erodium beketowii Schmalh.

Dioecious perennial herb, canescent, glandular; rhizome stout woody, tuft forming, stems15-30cm, erect, branching.

Erodium beketowii; Donets’k, Ukraine; April 2007; photo: Vadym Maniuk; iNaturalist; (CC-BY-NC)
Erodium beketowii; Donets’k, Ukraine; April 2007; photo: Vadym Maniuk; iNaturalist; (CC-BY-NC)

Leaves: Leaves about 100 mm long, green-grey due to appressed, glandular hairs, oblong bipinnate with intercalary lflets, lobed and cut, the pinnules narrowly linear.

Erodium beketowii; Donets’k, Ukraine; April 2007; photo: Vadym Maniuk; iNaturalist; (CC-BY-NC)

Inflorescence: Umbels of 5-15 flowers about 16mm across, unblotched; sepal 9 mm, with a mucro; petals c. 8 mm, lilac to mauve; stamen filaments red-pink; anthers red-pink; pollen orange; anthers red-pink; flowers July.

Erodium beketowii; Tel’manivs’kyi, Donets’k, Ukraine; Apr 28, 2013; Photo credit: Davydova Anastasia; from iNaturalist.org; (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Fruit: mericarp c. 7 mm, rostrum 3-4 cm.

Erodium beketowii; Tel’manivs’kyi, Donets’k, Ukraine; Apr 28, 2013; Photo credit: Davydova Anastasia; from iNaturalist.org (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Distribution: endemic S.E. Ukraine; in rocky and gravely places, on outcrops along Kalmus & Kalchik Rivers, in Russian occupied Ukraine.