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Eremogone fendleri

Fendler's sandwort
Habit Plants ± cespitose, bluish green, not glaucous, with woody base.
Stems

erect, (2–)10–30(–40) cm, stipitate-glandular.
Leaves

basal leaves persistent;

cauline leaves in (4–)5+ pairs, reduced or not;

basal blades ascending or recurved, filiform, 1–10(–11) cm × 0.2–0.4 mm, flexuous, herbaceous, apex apiculate to spinose, glabrous to puberulent, not glaucous.
Inflorescences

(1–)3–35-flowered, ± open cymes.
Pedicels

3–25 mm, stipitate-glandular.
Flowers

sepals weakly to prominently 1–3-veined, linear-lanceolate, 4–7.5 mm, not enlarging in fruit, margins broad, apex acuminate, moderately to densely stipitate-glandular on herbaceous portion;

petals white, oblong-elliptic to spatulate, 4–8 mm, 0.9–1.3 times as long as sepals, apex entire to somewhat erose;

nectaries as lateral and abaxial rounding of base of filaments opposite sepals, 0.2 × 0.4 mm.
Capsules

5–7 mm, glabrous.
Seeds

black, ovoid to pyriform with hilar notch, 1.5–1.9 mm, tuberculate;

tubercles rounded, elongate to rounded-conic.
2n

= 44.

Eremogone fendleri
Phenology Flowering spring–late summer.
Habitat Sagebrush plains, pine forests, and mountain slopes to alpine zones
Elevation 1200-4300 m (3900-14100 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; TX; UT; WY
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Discussion

We agree with M. F. Baad (1969) in not formally recognizing varieties within Eremogone fendleri. B. Maguire (1947, 1951) recognized five varieties, defined chiefly on leaf and sepal characteristics. While some specimens can be “matched” to varieties, many appear intermediate between them, forming a continuum of variation.

B. Maguire (1947) noted that Eremogone fendleri is “probably to be found in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico”; we have not seen any collections from that area.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 5, p. 64.
Parent taxa Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Alsinoideae > Eremogone
Sibling taxa
E. aberrans, E. aculeata, E. capillaris, E. congesta, E. eastwoodiae, E. ferrisiae, E. franklinii, E. hookeri, E. kingii, E. macradenia, E. pumicola, E. stenomeres, E. ursina
Synonyms Arenaria fendleri, Arenaria fendleri subsp. brevifolia, Arenaria fendleri var. brevifolia, Arenaria fendleri var. diffusa, Arenaria fendleri var. porteri, Arenaria fendleri var. tweedyi, Arenaria tweedyi
Name authority (A. Gray) Ikonnikov: Novosti Syst. Vyssh. Rast. 10: 139. (1973)
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