Geranium asphodeloides
Geranium asphodeloides
Ssp asphodeloides: Yara merhemi
Perennial, 15-50 cm, erect or weakly ascending; rhizome short, bearing fleshy, narrowly fusiform roots. Leaves 3-6 cm diam., palmatifid to ¾-4/5; segments broadly cuneate, 2-3-fid into entire or incised-dentate lobes. Peduncles 1-6 cm. Pedicels glandular-pilose, deflexed in fruit. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 6-7.5 mm, pubescent, often glandular; awn 1-1.5 mm. Petals obovate or narrowly so, entire or retuse, 9-14 mm, mauve or sometimes reddish purple. Mericarps pubescent, not ridged; beak 10-12 mm. Seeds foveolate.
Very variable in habit, indumentum and flower size. Two subspecies, showing some intergradation, can be recognised in Turkey:
1. Stem retrorsely pilose, eglandular; inflorescence diffuse, few-flowered, leafy; petals 12-16 mm, mauve subsp. asphodeloides . Euro-Sib. element. )
1. Stem patently glandular-pilose with long eglandular hairs and shorter, darkly capitate glandular hairs; inflorescence more definite and more numerous-flowered, scarcely leafy; petals 9-12 mm, mauve or deep reddish purple subsp. sintenisii
Very variable in habit, indumentum and flower size. Two subspecies, showing some intergradation, can be recognised in Turkey:
1. Stem retrorsely pilose, eglandular; inflorescence diffuse, few-flowered, leafy; petals 12-16 mm, mauve subsp. asphodeloides . Euro-Sib. element. )
1. Stem patently glandular-pilose with long eglandular hairs and shorter, darkly capitate glandular hairs; inflorescence more definite and more numerous-flowered, scarcely leafy; petals 9-12 mm, mauve or deep reddish purple subsp. sintenisii
