Cardionema ramosissimum |
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sand-carpet, sand-mat |
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Stems | often forming dense mats, 5–30+ cm, often obscured by stipules and dense pubescence. |
Leaves | stipules 1–8 mm, often nearly as long as leaves, lobes acuminate; blade 2-grooved, 5–13 mm, apex finely spinose, glabrous. |
Flowers | densely woolly, hairs 0.5–1.5 mm; sepals 5, margins fimbriate, awn 1.5–4 mm; staminodes white, 0.3–0.5 mm. |
Seeds | 1.4–1.6 mm. |
Utricles | apex apiculate. |
Cardionema ramosissimum |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Sandy beaches, grassy bluffs, sand dunes |
Elevation | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; Mexico; South America (Chile, Ecuador, Peru)
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Discussion | The flowers are burlike in fruit with the utricle enclosed in the rigid, persistent calyx, the presumed unit of seed dispersal. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 46. |
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Paronychioideae > Cardionema |
Synonyms | Loeflingia ramosissima |
Name authority | (Weinmann) A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 56: 473. (1913) |
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