Spergularia macrotheca |
Spergularia macrotheca var. longistyla |
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beach sand-spurrey, beach sand-spurry, sticky sand spurry, sticky sand-spurrey |
long style sand spurrey, sticky sandspurry |
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Habit | Plants strongly perennial with branched, woody base, stout, 5–40 cm, densely stipitate-glandular in inflorescence or throughout. | Plants 10–30 cm. | ||||||||
Taproots | becoming stout, woody. |
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Stems | erect or ascending to prostrate, usually branched proximally; main stem 0.8–3 mm diam. proximally. |
ascending or erect, sometimes prostrate. |
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Leaves | stipules conspicuous, dull white to tan, narrowly triangular, 4.5–11 mm, apex long-acuminate; blade linear, (0.6–)1–5.5 cm, fleshy, apex apiculate to spine-tipped; axillary leaves 1–2+ per cluster. |
stipules 4.5–8 mm; blade 1.5–4 cm. |
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Pedicels | erect, divergent, or reflexed in fruit. |
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Flowers | sepals connate 0.5–1.8 mm proximally, lobes often 3-veined, ovate to lanceolate, 4.5–7 mm, to 8 mm in fruit, margins 0.3–0.7 mm wide, apex blunt to rounded; petals white or pink to rosy, elliptic to obovate, 0.9–1.3 times as long as sepals in flower; stamens 9–10; styles 0.6–3 mm. |
sepal lobes ovate to lanceolate, (4.5–)5–5.5 mm, to 7 mm in fruit; petals white, 1–1.3 times as long as sepals; styles 2–3 mm. |
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Capsules | tan, 4.6–10 mm, 0.8–1.4 times as long as sepals. |
0.8–1 times as long as sepals. |
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Seeds | ± red-brown, often with submarginal groove or depression, suborbiculate to pyriform, compressed, (0.6–)0.7–1.2 mm, smooth to faintly or prominently tuberculate or sculpturing of parallel, wavy lines or of low, rounded mounds, not papillate; wing absent or white to reddish brown proximally, 0.1–0.3 mm wide, margins irregular. |
dark red-brown, often with submarginal groove, suborbiculate to pyriform, 0.8–1.2 mm, covered with rounded, elongate tubercles; wing sometimes absent, 0.2–0.3 mm wide. |
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Cymes | simple to 3-compound or flowers solitary and axillary. |
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Spergularia macrotheca |
Spergularia macrotheca var. longistyla |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | |||||||||
Habitat | Alkaline marshes, mud flats, meadows, hot springs | |||||||||
Elevation | 20-200 m (100-700 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC; including nw Mexico
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CA |
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 18. | FNA vol. 5, p. 18. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Polycarpoideae > Spergularia | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Polycarpoideae > Spergularia > Spergularia macrotheca | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Arenaria macrotheca | |||||||||
Name authority | (Hornemann ex Chamisso & Schlechtendal) Heynhold: Alph. Aufz. Gew. 689. (1846) | R. Rossbach: Rhodora 42: 78, plate 589, fig.le,f.1940 | ||||||||
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