Erodium moschatum

Ascending annual herb with musk-like smell, to 40 cm high; stems and petioles pilose to hirsute with eglandular and glandular hairs, denser on upper stems. Leaves pinnate, lamina c. oblong in outline, 4–15 cm long, 2–5 cm wide; leaflets sessile, ovate to elliptic, 1–3 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, toothed, pilose with eglandular hairs and sessile glands; petiole 1–8 cm long. Inflorescences 4–7-flowered; peduncle 4–10 cm long (to 15 cm in fruit); pedicels 6–20 mm long; sepals 3–6 mm long (to 10 mm in fruit), glandular-pilose; petals slightly longer than sepals, pink. Mericarps 5–6 mm long, the shallow pit at either side at base of awn with a low, acute lower margin and a shallow furrow beneath, both the pit and furrow, or only the pit with scattered glands; awn 2.5–4 cm long. Flowers Jun.–Nov.