Erodium telavivense Eig.
Erodium telavivense is an annual herb; stems rather upright, not much branched.
Leaves: Leaves to 10cm, ovate, almost entire, deeply lobed, often with a pair of free leaflets at base, lobes and leaflets irregularly toothed, sharper toothed and broader laminules than E. gruinum.
Inflorescence: Umbels of 2-6 flowers, bracts lanceolate, acute, whitish; sepals 15-20mm, usually with a few eglandular hairs; sepal mucro 4mm; petals 20-25 mm, fugacious (petals drop by noon), lilac.
Fruit: is large; rostrum 8-12cm; mericarps 12-15 mm; foveoles deep, ciliate bristly at the sides, 1 or 2 furrows below. 2n=36 Zohary (1972)
Distribution: endemic to Israel, at Tel Aviv; hills of chalky sandstone; locally common in grassy places and dwarf scrub; Sharon Plain, Philistean Plain.
Notes: close to E. gruinum, but with long hairs on the seed-foveole and the foveole-furrows.
