Mecardonia procumbens |
Mecardonia acuminata |
|||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
baby jump-up |
axilflower |
|||||||||
Stems | spreading, prostrate, or ascending, 10–60 cm, glandular. |
erect, 10–60 cm, glandular. |
||||||||
Leaves | glandular; blade 10–25 × 6–12 mm, 4–8 times bracts, margins sharply serrate. |
glandular; blade 9–30 × 6–10 mm, 1–2 times bracts, margins weakly serrate. |
||||||||
Pedicels | ascending, 7–25 mm. |
divaricate or ascending, 6–22 mm. |
||||||||
Flowers | calyx lobes equal; corolla lemon yellow with reddish veins in throat, abaxial lip prominent, adaxial lobes connate nearly to apices; stamens medially adnate to corolla. |
calyx lobes unequal; corolla white with purple veins in throat, adaxial lobes connate 1/2–2/3 lengths, abaxial lip not prominent; stamens distally adnate to corolla. |
||||||||
Capsules | 4–5 mm. |
6–7 mm. |
||||||||
Seeds | 60–80, brown, radial walls of reticulum mamillate. |
40–60, black, radial walls of reticulum smooth. |
||||||||
2n | = 22, 44. |
|||||||||
Mecardonia procumbens |
Mecardonia acuminata |
|||||||||
Phenology | Flowering May–Oct. | |||||||||
Habitat | Wetlands, edges of streams, springs and seeps, deserts in upland washes and canyons with moisture. | |||||||||
Elevation | 90–1600 m. (300–5200 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AL; AZ; FL; GA; LA; MS; NM; TX; Mexico; Central America [Introduced in Asia (India, Sri Lanka), Africa (Cameroon, Sierra Leone), Australia]
|
AL; AR; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; LA; MO; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV
|
||||||||
Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
|||||||||
Key |
|
|||||||||
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 275. | FNA vol. 17, p. 273. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Mecardonia | Plantaginaceae > Mecardonia | ||||||||
Sibling taxa | ||||||||||
Subordinate taxa | ||||||||||
Synonyms | Erinus procumbens, Bacopa procumbens, M. tenuis | Gratiola acuminata, Bacopa acuminata | ||||||||
Name authority | (Miller) Small: Fl. S.E. U.S., 1065, 1338. (1903) | (Walter) Small: Fl. S.E. U.S., 1065, 1337. (1903) | ||||||||
Web links |