Erodium cicutarium
Erodium cicutarium
Ssp bipinnatum: Ebeiğnesi; Ssp cicutarium: İğnelik
Caulescent annual , up to 40 cm. Basal leaves pinnate, leaflets ovate-oblong, 4-10 mm, deeply pinnatifid into entire or few-toothed segments. Cauline leaves with leaflets deeply 1-2-pinnatifid. Stipules usually ovate. Sepals 4-5 mm, up to 7 mm in fruit; awn 0,2-0,5 mm, usually bearing 1 or more long terminal bristles. Petals ovate, not overlapping, mauve or pink, 1 ½ -2 x sepals. Beak of fruit 2,5-3,5 cm. Mericarps c. 5 mm, foveoles eglandular, often with a narrow, shallow furrow beneath. – A very variable species. Two subspecies may be recognised in Turkey:
1. Mericarps with a furrow below the foveoles; basal and stem leaves usually dissimilar, leaflets with acute laciniae subsp. cicutarium
1. Mericarps without a furrow below the foveoles; basal and stem leaves similar, leaflets with obtuse laciniae subsp. bipinnatum
Europe, N. Africa, S.W. Asia; naturalised in America, Australia, E. Africa.
