Erodium moschatum, (L.) L'Her.

26. E. moschatum (L.) L’Hér. View in CoL in Aiton, Hort. Kew. 2: 414 (1789).

Annual or biennial, smelling of musk. Stems 10-50 cm, hispid with usually deflexed hairs, dense above, sparse below. Leaves up to 20 cm, oblong-lanceolate, pinnate almost throughout their length, without intercalary leaflets; leaflets ovate, dentate, serrate or somewhat pinnatifid, the lower ones remote. Umbels with 5-12 flowers; bracts several, broadly ovate, subacute, subglabrous, pale brown. Sepals 6-9 mm; petals c. 15 mm, violet or purple. Mericarps 5-6 mm, with patent, brown or white hairs; apical pits very wide, glandular, with a wide, deep furrow at the base. Beak 20-45 mm. 2n = 20. Cultivated ground and waste places. S. & W. Europe; frequently naturalized or casual elsewhere. Al Az BI *Br Co Cr Ga G r Ho Hs It Ju Lu Sa Si Tu [Au Be Cz Ge *Hb He Hu].

27-30. E. acaule group. Acaulescent perennials. Leaves up to 15 cm, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, pinnate, without intercalary leaflets; leaflets ovate-elliptical to ovate-lanceolate, pinnatifid or pinnatisect. Umbels with 3-10 flowers; bracts several, ovatelanceolate, subglabrous. Mucro of sepals small or absent. Mericarps 6-7 mm, with ascending, white hairs. Beak 25-50 mm. 1 Petiole almost as long as lamina 30. rupicola 1 Petiole not more than half as long as lamina 2 Petals without a dark patch; hairs on sepals appressed,

eglandular 27. acaule 2 Upper two petals with a black basal patch; hairs on sepals

± patent, glandular 3 Bracts and stipules brown; hairs on leaves mostly eglandular;

apical pits of mericarp eglandular 28. carvifolium 3 Bracts and stipules whitish; hairs on leaves mostly glandular;

apical pits of mericarp densely glandular 29. paui