Erodium glandulosum (Cav.) Willd.
Clade II; Subclade 4; Section Foetida; series glandulosum.
Erodium glandulosum is a sub-acaulescent perennial, 5-20cm.
Leaves bipinnatisect, with intercalary leaflets, green, glabrescent or slightly hairy, leaflets in the plane of the lamina, stipules 3-8.5mm, lancoelate adnate on less than one third of the length.
Inflorescence: Umbel of 4-8 flowers; bracts 4-8, 5-9mm, lanceolate, whitish; sepals 6-8mm, mucro 0.9-1.9mm; Petals 8.7-15.3 mm; lower petals three narrower and not overlapping pink; the upper two petals violet and strongly blotched, nectaries spherical and unequal, taller than wide.
Fruit: Fruit 32-50 mm; mericarps 6-8.5 mm with suborbicular glandular foveoles, densly ciliate on the outer edge, with no furrow; c6 tight turns to the spiral; cotyledons entire; 2n=20
Distribution: endemic to Spain, France, in the Pyrenees Mountains, to central Spain.
Notes: differs from E. cheilanthifolium in green rather than silver leaves, cotyledons of E. cheilanthifolium are notched.
