Sidotheca caryophylloides |
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chickweed oxytheca, chickweed starry puncturebract |
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Habit | Plants 1–2.5 × (0.3–)1–4(–5) dm. |
Stems | spreading to prostrate. |
Leaf | blades spatulate to oblanceolate, 1–6(–8) × 0.3–1.2(–1.8) cm. |
Inflorescences | diffuse, 0.5–2 dm; bracts 3–8 × 0.5–1.5 mm, awns 0.2–0.5 mm. |
Peduncles | erect, 0.1–1 cm, sparsely glandular or glabrous, otherwise absent. |
Involucres | concolored, narrowly to broadly turbinate, 4–7 mm, sparsely glandular; teeth 5(–6), connate ca. 1/2 their length; awns greenish to reddish, 0.3–1 mm. |
Flowers | 2–3; perianth greenish yellow to reddish, 1–2 mm; tepals broadly oblanceolate, 3-lobed apically 1/5 their length, lobes not laciniate; filaments 0.8–1.2 mm; anthers red, oval, 0.2–0.4 mm. |
Achenes | golden to red-brown, 1.2–1.5 mm. |
2n | = 40. |
Sidotheca caryophylloides |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Sep. |
Habitat | Sandy to gravelly flats, washes, and slopes, chaparral communities, montane conifer woodlands |
Elevation | 1300-2600 m (4300-8500 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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Discussion | Sidotheca caryophylloides grows in the Transverse Ranges and the southern Sierra Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 440. |
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Synonyms | Oxytheca caryophylloides, Eriogonum caryophylloides |
Name authority | (Parry) Reveal: Harvard Pap. Bot. 9: 211. (2004) |
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