Geranium cinereum, Cav.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 195

3. G. cinereum Cav. , Monad. Class. Diss. Dec. 204 (1787).

Perennial, with very stout, vertical rhizome. Leaves all basal, 2-3 cm wide, pubescent on both sides, sometimes greyish-serice­ ous beneath, divided for 80 % of the radius (but often apparently less from overlapping of the lobes) into 5-7 obovate-cuneate or obdeltate, usually almost contiguous lobes, each with 3 obtuse or mucronate segments or teeth at apex. Peduncles 5-10 cm, 2-flowered; bracts usually small, scarious. Sepals aristate; petals c. 15 mm, obovate, emarginate, with very short claw. Mericarps sericeous, with 1-3 ridges below the style. Rocky or grassy places in mountains. S. & W. part of Balkan peninsula; C. & S. Italy; Pyrenees. Al Ga Gr Hs It Ju.

Two rather ill-defined subspecies may be recognized: