Erodium absinthoides Willd. (sens strict.)
Erodium absinthoides has grey leafy stems, with shortly adpressed hairs.
Leaves are narrowly oblong, length 2 to 4 times their width, with segments laxly and deeply 2 pinnate into lanceolate acute lobes, densely canescent giving the leaves a silvery grey colour.
Inflorescence: The flowering stems bear 1 to 12 peduncles of white flowers with notched petals in June. Sepals are hairy with a long mucro 2 – 2.8 mm, not glandular; stamen filaments greenish; anthers greenish to pink; pollen yellow to orange; beak is 4 to 4.5cm.
Distribution: This species is found at relatively low level, at between 100 and 1600m, in steppe, in western central Turkey: provinces Ankara, Isparta, Kirşehir, Konya, and Kütahya.
Synonym:
E. absinthoides subsp absinthoides Willd.
Note: this page deals with Erodium absinthoides in it’s strict sense, i.e. the taxon that is known as ssp absinthoides. The other subspecies of e. absinthoides are dealt with as separate species.
