Erodium acaule
| Erodium acaule | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Geraniales |
| Family: | Geraniaceae |
| Genus: | Erodium |
| Species: | E. acaule
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| Binomial name | |
| Erodium acaule (L.) Bech. & Thell.
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Erodium acaule is a species of plant in the family Geraniaceae.
Description
[edit]Perennial, acaulescent, 15–25 cm high. Hairs spare, appressed. Root vertical, lignified. Leaves rosulate, lanceolate-oblong, spreading on soil, pinnatisect. Segments sessile, oblong-ovate, Pinnatilobed, in short and acute strips. Flowers 1.5 cm in diameter, bright pink. Petals equal, 2-3 times longer than calyx, rounded at apex. Beak of fruits 4–5 cm long.
Flowering
[edit]Nearly all the year round.
Habitat
[edit]Fields. waste ground.
Distribution
[edit]Coast, lower and middle mountains, Beqaa valley in Lebanon.
Geographic area
[edit]Syria, Lebanon, the Palestine region, the Eastern Mediterranean, and southern Europe.
The generic name is derived from the Greek erôdios, heron, since the fruit of this plant, which ends in a long bill, suggests the bill of a heron. The specific name, indicating that the plant is stemless, is formed of the privative prefix a and of the Greek kaulos, stem[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Mustapha Nehmeh, Wild Flowers Of Lebanon, National Council For Scientific Research,1978,pages 187,188.
- Georges Tohme& Henriette Tohme, IIIustrated Flora of Lebanon, National Council For Scientific Research, Second Edition 2014.