Paronychia franciscana |
Paronychia echinulata |
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California whitlow wort, San Francisco nailwort, San Francisco whitlow wort |
Eurasian nailwort |
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Habit | Plants perennial, mat-forming; caudex branched, woody. | |
Stems | prostrate, usually much-branched throughout, 5–50 cm, pubescent. |
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Leaves | stipules ovate-lanceolate, 3–6 mm, apex narrowly acute to long-acuminate, entire; blade elliptic to oblanceolate, 5–10 × 1.5–2.5 mm, ± fleshy, apex spinulous, entire, ± moderately antrorsely appressed-pubescent. |
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Flowers | 5-merous, short-cylindric, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx cylindric to slightly tapering distally, 1.9–2.4 mm, glabrous, sepals puberulent distally; sepals greenish, becoming reddish brown, midrib and lateral pair of veins often apparent, oblong to ovate, 1.2–1.3 mm, herbaceous, margins translucent, ca. 0.1 mm wide, scarious, apex terminated by awn, hood broadly rounded, awn erect, 0.5–0.7 mm, conic in proximal 1/6 with whitish, smooth spine; staminodes absent; styles 2, 0.2–0.3 mm. |
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Cymes | axillary, inconspicuous, 2–6-flowered, tightly congested. |
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Utricles | ± globose to 4-angled, 1.2–1.3 mm, papillate distally. |
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Paronychia franciscana |
Paronychia echinulata |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | |
Habitat | Grassy hills | |
Elevation | 20-300 m (100-1000 ft) | |
Distribution |
CA; South America (Chile) [Introduced in North America]
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CA; Europe (Medi-terranean region); sw Asia; Africa (nw Mediterranean region) |
Discussion | Although Paronychia franciscana was described from California, where it has been known from the San Francisco area since 1887, the species is native in Chile. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (1 in the flora). Paronychia echinulata was for many years known as P. echinata Lamarck. The latter cannot be used since, as Chater noted, it is a superfluous name for Illecebrum cymosa Linnaeus [= P. cymosa (Linnaeus) de Candolle]. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 38. | FNA vol. 5, p. 36. |
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Paronychioideae > Paronychia | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Paronychioideae > Paronychia |
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Name authority | Eastwood: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 28: 288. (1901) | Chater: Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 69: 52. (1964) |
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