Erodium cinereum Boiss. & Heldr.
Perennial; entire plant covered in short adpressed hairs; caespitose to the root, neck clothed with old petioles; stem tufts branching, leafy
Leaves: Radical leaves dense, congested, petiolate; lamina outline oblong, bipinnatisect; laciniae oblong-linear, acute; cauline leaves sessile, pinnatisect, laciniae few; stipules scarious, very small.
Inflorescence: Umbels of 8-10 flowers, pedicels thin, thinly and patent glandulose-hispid; sepals oblong-elliptic, very short mucronate, black striped, few and short hispid-viscose hairs, margin membranaceous; petals rose-pink, 2x calyx; flowers in June
Fruit: Carpels adpressed white villose, beak eglandulose hairy, 40mm
Distribution: In sunny clay in between Egridir and Koniah, central Turkey.
