Erodium guiccardii Heldr.
Perennial; dioecious; perenniating crown at ground level; root a very long thick black tap-root; stems short tufted.
Leaves: Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, acute, 5-10 x 3mm, adnate to the base of the petiole, glabrescent, brown; basal leaves to 25cm, silvery grey-green, bipinnate, with intercalary leaflets, final leaf segments scimitar-lanceolate.
Inflorescence: Annual flowering stems leafy with reduced and untypical leaves, few branched, prostrate, silvery-tomentose; flowers in umbels of 2-7, about 2cm across, bright satin pink, petals rather pointed. Flowers late July and August
Fruit: Beak 4.5-6.5cm. 2n=18
Distribution: North Greece, on Mount Tymfristos and near Lake Prespa where it is found in all three countries around the lake, Albania, Greece and North Macedonia.
Note: There are plants in cultivation labelled E. guiccardii which are hybrids of E. guiccardii and another species.
Differs from E. elatum. E. elatum has leaves which are oblong and 2-3 pinnatisect, with narrower leaf segments, green to grey green, flower colour; pink to blush violet with more rounded petals, and flowering time – elatum flowers early in April and May.
