Erodium aguilellae López Udias, Fabregat & Mateo

Family: GERANIACEAE

Genus: Erodium

Spanish common name: Geranio castellonense.

Province distribution: Castelló.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean (Eastern-Iberian)

Plants protected by law: País Valencià Catalogue.

IUCN Category: NTNear threatened

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Chameophyte.

Habitats: Quercus coccifera and Chamaerops humilis litoral maquis. Pine wood and shrubland with rosemary and thyme garigue. Low shrublands and perennial grasslands on rocky or stony calcareous substrates

Characteristics: Perennial herb, woody at the base. All leaves basal, with petiole roughly as long as the blade, densely hairy. Blade composed of numerous independent, sessile leaflets, deeply lobed or divided. Inflorescences borne on peduncles up to 30 cm tall, with 6-12 flowers bearing pale pink, unequal petals, the upper two often marked. Fruit divided into segments (mericarps) of 7-8 mm and a long awn of about 30-40 mm, spirally twisted when dry