Paronychia rugelii |
Paronychia erecta |
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Rugel's nailwort, sand squares |
squareflower |
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Habit | Plants annual; taproot filiform to slender. | Plants perennial (occasionally biennial), often matted; taproot stout. |
Stems | erect, dichotomously branched, 5–50 cm, retrorsely to spreading- pubescent throughout. |
prostrate to ascending, branched especially distally, retrorsely to spreading-pubescent throughout (when pubescent); flowering stems 8–48 cm; sterile stems 2–10 cm. |
Leaves | stipules ovate-lanceolate, 2–6 mm, apex acuminate, entire; blade linear to linear-oblanceolate or linear-oblong, 3–25 × 1–2.3 mm, herbaceous, apex ± acute, moderately antrorsely puberulent. |
stipules ovate-lanceolate, 2–12 mm, apex acuminate, entire; blade linear to spatulate-oblanceolate, 4–40 × 1–4 mm, leathery, apex obtuse to acute, moderately antrorsely pubescent. |
Flowers | 5-merous, cylindric to narrowly lanceolate, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx cylindric to tapering distally, 2.3–3.5 mm, pubescent mostly proximal with hooked or usually straight hairs, sometimes with scattered straight hairs distally; sepals flecked or solid red-brown, white distally, midrib obscure, linear-lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm, papery, margins white, 0.1–0.2 mm wide, papery, apex terminated by mucro, hood obscure, narrowly rounded, mucro short-conic, ca. 0.1 mm, glabrous; staminodes filiform, widening proximally, 0.5–0.6 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 1/10. |
5-merous, narrowly ellipsoid, with slightly enlarged hypanthium and calyx tapering distally, 2.3–3.5 mm, glabrous to slightly puberulent proximally with straight to hooked hairs; sepals red-brown, white or whitish distally, veins absent, narrowly oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 1.4–2 mm, papery, margins white, ca. 0.1 mm wide, papery, apex rounded, hood formed from slight incurving, awn or mucro absent; staminodes narrowly oblong, 0.4 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 1/10, 1.3–1.7 mm. |
Cymes | terminal and lateral, 15–50+-flowered, often forming large, congested clusters 5–30 mm wide. |
terminal, 15–200+-flowered, branched, densely to loosely grouped to form subcorymbose clusters 5–50 mm wide. |
Utricles | broadly ellipsoid to ± globose, 0.5–0.7 mm, smooth, glabrous. |
ovoid to ellipsoid, 1–1.2 mm, rugulose, glabrous. |
Paronychia rugelii |
Paronychia erecta |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–fall. | Flowering spring–fall. |
Habitat | Woodlands, fields, clearings, roadsides, waste places | Coastal dunes, sandflats, pine/oak woodlands |
Elevation | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) | 0-100 m (0-300 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; GA
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AL; FL; LA; MS
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Plants with pubescent stems, strigose leaves, and pubescent receptacles have been recognized as var. corymbosa. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 41. | FNA vol. 5, p. 37. |
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Paronychioideae > Paronychia | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Paronychioideae > Paronychia |
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Synonyms | Siphonychia rugelii, Gibbesia rugelii, Odontonychia interior, P. rugelii var. interior, Siphonychia interior | Siphonychia erecta, Odontonychia corymbosa, Odontonychia erecta, P. erecta var. corymbosa |
Name authority | (Chapman) Shuttleworth ex Chapman: Fl. South. U.S. ed. 3, 397. (1897) | (Chapman) Shinners: Sida 1: 102. (1962) |
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