Erodium subintegrifolium Hock
Annual; 10-40cm; sparingly patulous or retrorsely hirsute, sometimes glabrescent; stems few, erect or ascending, simple or sparingly branched.
Leaves: Leaves 4-7cm long; leaf blade long ovate to oblong, cordate at base, appressed hairy, with sessile golden glands, those of lower leaves dentate-crenate or more or less shallowly lobed, those of stem leaves usually 3-5-fid or-lobed; rarely all leaves undivided; stipules 4-8mm, ovate, brownish.
Inflorescence: Peduncles much longer than leaves; umbels 3-7 flowered; bracts membranous, broadly ovate, acutish; pedicels much longer than the flowers; sepals 6-8mm, papillose to patulose-hirsute, ending in mucro 1mm tipped with a bristle; petals c. 2x sepals, lilac-pink; filaments pink, glabrous; anthers dark purple; pollen orange; stigma pink; flowers March-April.
Fruit: beak 5-8cm; Mericarps 6-7mm, appressed hairy, foveoles smooth, without furrows beneath
Distribution: endemic to Israel; Sharon Plain, Philistean Plain; rare, in grassy places & coastal scrub.
