Arenaria serpyllifolia |
Arenaria livermorensis |
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sabline á feuilles de serpolet, thyme-leaf sandwort |
Livermore sandwort |
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Habit | Plants annual. | Plants perennial, matted, moss-like. | ||||
Taproots | filiform. |
filiform. |
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Stems | 1–100+, erect to ascending or sprawling, green, 3–40+ cm; internodes terete to ellipsoid, 2–8 times as long as leaves, dull, retrorsely pubescent throughout, sometimes also stipitate-glandular. |
15–25, decumbent, trailing, green, 1–4 cm; internodes angular to grooved, 1–11/2 times as long as leaves, minute, shiny, pubescence of widely spreading to slightly retrorse hairs in 2 lines. |
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Leaves | often connate basally, with scarious or mostly herbaceous sheath 0.2–0.3 mm, petiolate (proximal leaves) or usually sessile; petiole 1–4 mm; blade 3–5 veined, elliptic to broadly ovate or rarely orbiculate, 2–7 × 1–4 mm, herbaceous, margins flat, herbaceous, dull, ciliate especially proximally, apex acute to acuminate, pustulate, sparsely minutely pubescent or glabrous; axillary leaf clusters absent. |
connate basally, with herbaceous sheath 0.1–0.2 mm, sessile; blade 1-veined, vein prominent abaxially, linear, 4–6 × 1 mm, herbaceous, rigid, margins thickened, herbaceous, shiny, lined with peglike cilia, apex acute, pungent-tipped, not pustulate, glabrous; axillary leaf clusters present. |
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Inflorescences | terminal, open, leafy, 3–50+-flowered cymes. |
solitary flowers in distal leaf axils. |
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Pedicels | erect or ascending in fruit, 1–12 mm, retrorsely pubescent. |
erect or ascending in fruit, 6–10 mm, minutely pubescent. |
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Flowers | sepals green, often prominently 3-veined, not keeled, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate (herbaceous portion narrowly elliptic to broadly lanceolate), 2–3 mm, to 4 mm in fruit, apex narrowly acute to acuminate, ± minutely pustulate, stipitate-glandular; petals oblong, 0.6–2.7 mm, 1/5–3/4 times as long as sepals, apex obtuse to rounded. |
sepals green, 1-veined, slightly keeled proximally, broadly lanceolate (herbaceous portion narrowly lanceolate), 3–4 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex acute to acuminate, not pustulate, glabrous; petals absent; stamens ca. 8. |
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Capsules | loosely enclosed by calyx, ovoid to cylindric-ovoid, 3–3.5 mm, 4/5–11/5 times as long as sepals. |
very loosely enclosed by calyx, ovoid, 2–3 mm, 2/3–4/5 times as long as sepals. |
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Seeds | 10–15, ashy black, reniform, plump, 0.4–0.6 mm, not shiny, with low-elongate, prominent tubercules. |
5–7, dark brown to black, subglobose, slightly compressed, ca. 1 mm, shiny, smooth. |
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Arenaria serpyllifolia |
Arenaria livermorensis |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. | |||||
Habitat | Crevices of cliffs and bare walls | |||||
Elevation | 2100-2500 m (6900-8200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; MT; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NS; ON; PE; QC; SK; Eurasia; Africa [Introduced, North America; introduced in Australia]
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TX |
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Discussion | Varieties 3+ (2 in the flora). Variation in Arenaria serpyllifolia in the broad sense is treated in various ways. The two varieties recognized here have been treated also as subspecies (e.g., A. O. Chater and G. Halliday 1993) or species (e.g., M. N. Abuhadra 2000; B. Jonsell 2001). Jonsell admitted that accepting them as species is questionable; while the morphological differences are slight (see esp. Abuhadra), the ploidy-level difference (2n = 40 in var. serpyllifolia vs. 2n = 20 in var. tenuior) is important. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Arenaria livermorensis is known only from the Davis Mountains in the Trans-Pecos region of western Texas. It may be related to A. lycopodioides Willdenow ex Schlechtendal, a species found in the mountains of central Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 55. | FNA vol. 5, p. 54. | ||||
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Alsinoideae > Arenaria | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Alsinoideae > Arenaria | ||||
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 423. (1753) | Correll: Brittonia 18: 308. (1967) | ||||
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