Paronychia canadensis |
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fork-chickweed, smooth fork whitlow-wort, smooth-fork nailwort |
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Habit | Plants annual; taproot filiform to slender. |
Stems | erect, dichotomously branched, 3–40 cm, ultimate branches filiform, glabrous. |
Leaves | stipules subulate to lanceolate, 0.5–4 mm, apex acuminate, entire; blade usually dotted or blotched, elliptic to obovate, 3–30 × 1–11 mm, herbaceous, apex acute to obtuse or cuspidate, glabrous. |
Flowers | 5-merous, ± short-cylindric, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx cylindric, 0.9–1.3 mm, glabrous; sepals greenish to brownish, midrib and lateral pair of veins prominent, ovate to oblong, 0.5–1 mm, herbaceous, margins white to translucent, 0.03–0.1 mm wide, scarious, apex terminated by mucro, hood rounded-triangular, mucro triangular, 0.07–0.15 mm, glabrous; staminodes absent or indistinct; styles 2, 0.2–0.3 mm. |
Cymes | diffuse, flowers solitary (paired) in axils of leafy bracts. |
Utricles | ovoid to globose, ca. 0.5 mm, granular in distal 1/2, glabrous. |
Paronychia canadensis |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. |
Habitat | Woodlands, thickets, fields, clearings, roadsides, waste places |
Elevation | 0-1300 m (0-4300 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MI; MN; MO; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; ON
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Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 34. |
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Paronychioideae > Paronychia |
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Synonyms | Queria canadensis, Anychia canadensis |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Alph. Wood: Class-Book Bot. ed. s.n.(b), 262. (1861) |
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