Erodium litwinowi Woron.
Annual; stems and petioles covered with long spreading hairs.
Leaves: Basal leaves 2-3cm long, petiole 5cm; stem leaves 1-2cm, petiole 2-3cm. leaf entire, few toothed, some are slightly 3-lobed.
Inflorescence: Flower lavender blue?; sepals small, 4mm in flower, 7mm in fruit, mucro 1mm; flowers April-June.
Fruit: beak 14 cm; mericarp 7-9 mm long with 1-2 transvers wrinkles below apex; awn feathers of one type, fine light brown, no bristles mixed, no bristles at spiral, central rachis bare; 2n=?; geranium type pollen.
Distribution: endemic to Asia; Iran, Afghanistan, central Asia. There are several sand lakes and high plateau areas between the Turkey mountain mass and the Himalayan mountain mass. May reach Iraq. Fl USSR adds Fine earth and stony slopes, foothills often gypsiferous.
Erodium litwinowi canbe distinguished from its close relative E. oxtrhinchum by fruit characteristics.
