GERANIUM FAMILY 



glandular-pilose; sepals glandular-pubescent, mucronate; petals rose-purple, 4-5 mm. long; fruiting styles about 

 2.5 cm. long. Locally established in central California. Native of the Mediterranean region. 



Erodium cygnorum Nees in Lehm. PI. Preiss. 1: 162. 1844. Stems 1-5 dm. high, somewhat hispidulous 

 Leaves villous, ovate in outline, 3-5-parted, the division incisely toothed; peduncles 3-S-flowered- pedicels not 

 glandular; calyx pubescent; petals 6-7 mm. long, blue; fruiting styles 4-6 cm. long. Locally established in 

 southern California. Native of Australia. 



3. Erodium Botrys Bertol. Long-beaked Filaree. Fig. 2978. 



Erodium Botrys Bertol. Amocn. Ital. 35. 1819. 



Acaulescent or with a branching stem 3-5 dm. long, bristly-hirsute. Leaves pinnatifid or bi- 



pinnatifid, or the basal crenate ; peduncles and pedicels glandular-hirsute; sepals 7-8 mm. long 



in flower, twice as long in fruit, minutely awn-tipped, glandular-pubescent, upper sepal margined 



with purple; petals 10-12 mm. long, cuneate, blunt at apex, purple with 3-5 dark purple veins; 



style-beak stout, 9-12 cm. long; pits on carpei-body at base of beak 2, each subtended by two 



folds forming smaller pits between. 



Pastures and waste places, naturalized from the Mediterranean region; coastal valleys and foothills of 

 California and sparingly in western Oregon. March-May. 



Erodium obtusiplicatum (Maire, Weiller & Wilczek) J. T. Howell, Leaflets West. Bot. 5: 68. 1947. 

 (.Erodium Botrys f. montantim Brumh. Rep. Nov. Spec. 2: 118. 1906; E. Botrys var. obtusiplicatum Maire 

 Weiller & Wilczek, Bull. See. Hist. Nat. Afr. Nord 26: 120. 1935.) Similar to Erodium Botrys in habit; 

 fruiting beak mostly shorter, 5.5-8.5 cm. long; pits in carpel-bodies 2, each with a single fold kielow; petals 

 ST":iller, about equaling to one-fourth longer than the sepals. This is becoming common and widespread in 

 California, but until recently (Wagnon and Biswell, Madrono 7: 118-125. fic/s. 1-3. 1943) its distinctive char- 

 acters have not been recognized. Type locality: Morocco. 



4. Erodium moschatum (Burm. f.) L'Her. Musk or White-stemmed Filaree. 



Fig. 2979. 



Geranium moschatum Burm. f. Sp. Geran. 29. 1759. 

 Erodium moschatum L'Her. ex Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 414. 1789. 



Acaulescent and prostrate or with ascending branches, mostly rather stout and glandular- 

 pubescent. Leaves rather ample, pinnate; stipules large, obtuse; leaflets unequally and doubly 

 serrate ; peduncle several-flowered ; sepals not terminated by long bristles, 6-7 mm. long ; anther- 

 bearing filaments 2-toothed. 



Fields, pastures, and waste places, naturalized from southern Europe; British Columbia to southern Cali- 

 fornia. Feb.-June. 



5. Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Her. Red-stemmed Filaree. Fig. 2980. 



Geranium cicutarium L. Sp. PI. 680. 1753. 



Geranium aethiopicum Lam. Encycl. 2: 266. 1786. 



Erodium cicutarium L'Her. ex Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 414. 1789. 



Erodium aethiopicum Brumh. & Thel. Mem. Soc. Sci. Cherbourg IV. 38: 352. 1911-12. 



Acaulescent, or the stems 1-5 dm. long, decumbent or ascending, often canescent with hirsute 

 pubescence, less glandular than the preceding. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets laciniately pinnatifid with 

 narrow acute lobes ; pedicels slender; petals rose-colored or purple; sepals with 1-2 terminal 

 bristle-like hairs ; anther-bearing filaments not toothed. 



June 



Fields and waste places, naturalized from southern Europe; British Columbia to southern California. Feb.- 



2978 

 2978. Erodium Botrys 



2979. Erodium moschatum 



2980 

 2980. Erodium cicutarium 



