Erodium asplenioides (Desf.) Willd.
Erodium asplenioides is a stemless perennial or with stems tuft forming and rough with old leaf bracts, root thick, fusiform.
Leaves: Basal leaves more or less entire, upper leaves pinnatisect, without intercalary leaflets, lobes cut-toothed at their ends; petioles hairy; stipules radical, large, scariose, red-brown, ovate, obtuse.
Inflorescence 5 or more flowered, bracts 4-5, ovate, scarious, red-brownish. Sepals are pubescent, elliptic, nerved, muticous. Petals large, equal, rounded, overlapping, 5-nerved, pink, with some basal marks. Mericarp: foveole glandular, no furrow. Beaks 30-40mm. 2n=20
Fruit: Mericarp: foveole glandular, no furrow. Beaks 30-40mm. 2n=20
Distribution: endemic to N. Africa – Tunisia & E. Algeria in chalky gullies at 1000-1200m
