Erodium leucanthum Boiss.
Erodium leucanthum is an erect, caespitose perennial, 8-20 cm, dioecious; tap root thick, branching; the whole plant covered in short glandular grey-white hairs.
Leaves: Basal leaves densely 2-3-pinnatisect, blade oblong, 2-5 cm, with intercalary leaflets, glandular and hairy; radicle leaves petiolate, stem leaves sessile; laciniae numerous, linear-filiform, 0,2-0,6 mm broad, patently glandular-pubescent or rarely canescent.
Inflorescence: Flowering stems glandular-pubescent or sometimes crisply pubescent, bearing 1-3 long peduncles, with umbels of 2-5 flowers. Sepals 5-6 mm, in flower, glandular-pubescent, often with longer eglandular hairs; awn 0,5-1 mm. Petals white, obovate, 1 ½ -2 x sepals.
Fruit: Beak 7cm, glandulose hairy; carpels adpressed villose.
Distribution: endemic to Turkey; in limestone scree and cliff crevices, at an altitude 1600-2300 m.; Mt Cadmus at 2000m; above Gheyra
