Erodium moschatum (L.) Aiton, W. Aiton, Hort. kew. 2:414. 1789 Common names: round-needles; musk stork's-bill
Easily distinguished from E. cicutarium by taller habit, larger leaves with shallowly divided leaflets; Annual or biennial herb with ascending or decumbent stems up to 50 cm long; leaves pinnate compound, mostly in a basal rosette, up to 15 cm long; leaflets sparsely hairy, 11-15, shallowly divided with broader segments; sepals 6-9 mm long; petals 10-15 mm long, pink; mericarps 4-6 mm long, glandular with 2-4 cm long beak. Photographed in California, common in fields and wastelands. -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
