Eremogone franklinii |
Eremogone fendleri |
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Franklin's sandwort |
Fendler's sandwort |
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Habit | Plants ± cespitose, bluish green, not glaucous, with woody base. | Plants ± cespitose, bluish green, not glaucous, with woody base. | ||||
Stems | erect, 3–10(–15) cm, glabrous. |
erect, (2–)10–30(–40) cm, stipitate-glandular. |
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Leaves | basal leaves persistent; cauline leaves in 6–10 pairs, closely overlapping, not reduced; basal blades arcuate-spreading, needlelike, (0.6–)1–2 cm × ca. 1 mm, ± rigid, herbaceous, apex spinose, glabrous, not glaucous. |
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. |
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Inflorescences | 3–45+-flowered, usually congested, subcapitate cymes. |
(1–)3–35-flowered, ± open cymes. |
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Pedicels | ca. 0.1–3(–4) mm, glabrous. |
3–25 mm, stipitate-glandular. |
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Flowers | sepals 1–3-veined, linear-lanceolate, (5–)8.5–12 mm, not enlarging in fruit, margins narrow, apex acuminate, glabrous; petals white, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly spatulate, 7–9 mm, 0.8–1.1 times as long as sepals, apex rounded to blunt; nectaries not apparent. |
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. |
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Capsules | 2.3–3.3 mm, glabrous. |
5–7 mm, glabrous. |
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Seeds | black, pyriform, 1.2–1.7 mm, tuberculate. |
black, ovoid to pyriform with hilar notch, 1.5–1.9 mm, tuberculate; tubercles rounded, elongate to rounded-conic. |
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2n | = 44. |
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Eremogone franklinii |
Eremogone fendleri |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–late summer. | |||||
Habitat | Sagebrush plains, pine forests, and mountain slopes to alpine zones | |||||
Elevation | 1200-4300 m (3900-14100 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
ID; NV; OR; WA
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AZ; CO; NM; TX; UT; WY
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 66. | FNA vol. 5, p. 64. | ||||
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Alsinoideae > Eremogone | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Alsinoideae > Eremogone | ||||
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Synonyms | Arenaria franklinii | 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 | (Douglas ex Hooker) R. L. Hartman & Rabeler: Sida 21: 240. (2004) | (A. Gray) Ikonnikov: Novosti Syst. Vyssh. Rast. 10: 139. (1973) | ||||
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