Erodium crenatum Pomel.
Erodium crenatum is a perennial plant, all parts little or not at all glandulous; stems large, leafy.
Leaves: Leaves grey-green, crenate, cordate at base, upper leaves little divided.
Inflorescence: bracts scarious, narrow, fused only at base, glabrous; sepals 3-5 nerved, with a mucro 1-2mm long; petals strongly oboval, pink, upper two faintly spotted at base.
Fruit: rostrum 40-60mm; mericarp awn has 13-15 turns; foveole small, oval, with no furrow. 2n=20
Distribution: endemic to N Africa: Morocco, incalcareous sands, between 800 and 1200 metres altitude.
Notes: close to E. nervulosum, but differs in having a shorter mucro, bracts narrow and only fused at base, upper leaves little divided.
