Paronychia pulvinata |
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Rocky Mountain nailwort |
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Habit | Plants perennial, densely cespitose, cushion-forming; caudex much-branched, woody. |
Stems | prostrate, much-branched, 5–10 cm, puberulent. |
Leaves | stipules ovate, 3–6 mm, apex subobtuse, entire; blade narrowly elliptic-oblong or oblong to narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, 2–5 × 0.2–1.8(–2) mm, fleshy, apex obtuse to subacute, glabrous. |
Flowers | mostly solitary at end of shoots, almost concealed by leaves.; flowers 5-merous, elliptic-oblong, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx straight to tapering distally, 2.5–2.8 mm, densely appressed-puberulent, sparsely so distally; sepals whitish to green, veins absent, narrowly oblong to ovate-oblong, 1.5–1.7 mm, papery to herbaceous, margins white, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, papery, apex with subterminal awn, hood ascending as continuation of sepal, broadly rounded to notched, awn erect, white, 0.3–0.6(–1) mm, ± glabrous spine; staminodes filiform, 0.7–0.9 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 1/3, 0.8–1 mm. |
Utricles | ovoid, 1.3–1.5 mm, smooth, glabrous. |
2n | = 32. |
Paronychia pulvinata |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Rocky slopes and summit screes in alpine regions |
Elevation | 3300-4200 m (10800-13800 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; UT; WY
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Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 40. |
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Paronychioideae > Paronychia |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | P. pulvinata var. longiaristata |
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 15: 58. (1864) |
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