Erodium astragaloides Boiss. Et Reuter
Erodium astragaloides is a perennial herb from South Spain, 3-10 cm, with a few short stems at rhizome apex or crown, with brown stipules and leaf bases.
Leaves: Leaves 2-8 cm, silvery due to white stout tightly adpressed & curled & intertwisted hairs; pinnate with leaflets quite entire or 2-5 toothed but small, 10-15 mm, lamina 30-40mm on petiole of 12-30mm; no intercalary lflts; stipules light brown turning dark, ovate, furry, 4-6mm long and 2-2.5mm wide.
Inflorescence: peduncle40-60mm, with 3-7 flowers; pedicels 10-20mm, thin; petals white or pink-veined, the upper 2 petals with red reticulate blotch, 9-12 mm long, 4mm wide, obovate, tip blunt or rounded; sepal spathulate or ovate, thick, woolly-tomentose, 7mm x 1.5-3mm, very shortly mucronate; staminodes and stamen filaments pink, glabrous; stigmas dark brown-purple.
Fruit: Mericarp 7-8 mm, foveole without a furrow; rostrum 35-55 mm, densely rigid hairy, awn with 4-5 turns. 2n=20
Distribution: endemic to South Spain: Sierra Nevada of Granat, Sierra de Loja, in sandy soil.
