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Caryophyllaceae

Caryophyllaceae
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Max Licher
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Richard K. Rabeler, Ronald L. Hartman in Flora of North America (vol. 5)
Herbs [small trees, shrubs, or vines], winter annual, annual, biennial, or perennial, glabrous or pubescence of simple hairs or stalked glands; taprooted and/or rhizomatous with fibrous roots, sometimes from woody caudex, rhizomes rarely with tuberous thickenings. Stems erect to prostrate, often with swollen nodes, herbaceous. Leaves opposite, pseudoverticillate, whorled, or rarely alternate, distinct or connate proximally, simple; petiole often present; stipules present or absent; blade subulate to linear, spatulate to broadly ovate or suborbiculate, succulent or not, margins entire. Inflorescences terminal or axillary cymes, thyrses, or capitula, or flowers solitary; bracts usually paired, foliaceous or reduced, herbaceous to scarious, or absent; involucel bracteoles (epicalyces) immediately subtending calyx occasionally present. Pedicels present, or flowers sessile. Flowers bisexual or occasionally unisexual, radially symmetric; perianth and androecium hypogynous or perigynous; hypanthium, when present, urceolate, cup-, disc-, or dish-shaped, sometimes abruptly expanded distally; sepals persistent in fruit, (3-)4-5, distinct or connate proximally into cup or tube, herbaceous or scarious, apex sometimes hooded or with apical or subapical spine; petals absent or (1-)4-5, often fugacious in Polycarpon, distinct, often clawed, auricles present or absent, coronal appendages present or absent, blade apex entire, notched, or 2(-4)-fid, sometimes dentate or laciniate; stamens 1-10, in 1 or 2 whorls, arising from base of ovary, nectariferous disc, or hypanthium rim, absent in pistillate flowers; staminodes usually absent, or 1-10 or 16-19; ovary 1, superior, 1-locular, rarely 2-locular proximally, or 3-5 locular, placentation free-central, basal, or axile in proximal half; ovules mostly campylotropous, bitegmic, crassinucellate; styles 1-5(-6), distinct or connate proximally, absent in staminate flowers; stigmas 2-5(-6), linear along adaxial surface of styles (or style branches), subcapitate, or terminal, papillate or obscurely so, absent in staminate flowers. Fruits capsules, carpels opening into entire valves or valves split axially into teeth to divided to base, or a usually indehiscent utricle; carpophore sometimes present. Seeds 1-150(-500+), often brown or black, sometimes white or yellowish to tan, reniform or triangular to globose and often laterally compressed, sometimes shield-shaped or obl
Species within checklist: Maine Eudicots || << 1 - 50 taxa >>
Agrostemma coronaria
Media resource of Agrostemma coronaria
Agrostemma githago
Media resource of Agrostemma githago
Alsine borealis
Media resource of Alsine borealis
Alsine glauca
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not available
Alsine graminea
Media resource of Alsine graminea
Alsine holostea
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not available
Alsine humifusa
Media resource of Alsine humifusa
Alsine uliginosa
Media resource of Alsine uliginosa
Arenaria glabra
Media resource of Arenaria glabra
Arenaria groenlandica
Media resource of Arenaria groenlandica
Arenaria serpyllifolia
Media resource of Arenaria serpyllifolia
Atocion armeria
Media resource of Atocion armeria
Cerastium alpinum
Media resource of Cerastium alpinum
Cerastium arvense
Media resource of Cerastium arvense
Cerastium fontanum
Media resource of Cerastium fontanum
Cerastium glomeratum
Media resource of Cerastium glomeratum
Cerastium pumilum
Media resource of Cerastium pumilum
Cerastium tomentosum
Media resource of Cerastium tomentosum
Coronaria coriacea
Media resource of Coronaria coriacea
Coronaria flos-cuculi
Media resource of Coronaria flos-cuculi
Dianthus armeria
Media resource of Dianthus armeria
Dianthus barbatus
Media resource of Dianthus barbatus
Dianthus deltoides
Media resource of Dianthus deltoides
Dianthus plumarius
Media resource of Dianthus plumarius
Gypsophila elegans
Media resource of Gypsophila elegans
Gypsophila muralis
Media resource of Gypsophila muralis
Gypsophila paniculata
Media resource of Gypsophila paniculata
Gypsophila repens
Media resource of Gypsophila repens
Gypsophila scorzonerifolia
Media resource of Gypsophila scorzonerifolia
Herniaria glabra
Media resource of Herniaria glabra
Honckenya peploides
Media resource of Honckenya peploides
Lychnis chalcedonica
Media resource of Lychnis chalcedonica
Lychnis coronaria
Media resource of Lychnis coronaria
Lychnis dioica
Media resource of Lychnis dioica
Lychnis flos-cuculi
Media resource of Lychnis flos-cuculi
Lychnis viscaria
Media resource of Lychnis viscaria
Melandrium dioicum
Media resource of Melandrium dioicum
Melandrium rubrum
Media resource of Melandrium rubrum
Minuartia glabra
Media resource of Minuartia glabra
Minuartia groenlandica
Media resource of Minuartia groenlandica
Minuartia rubella
Media resource of Minuartia rubella
Moehringia lateriflora
Media resource of Moehringia lateriflora
Mononeuria patula
Media resource of Mononeuria patula
Myosoton aquaticum
Media resource of Myosoton aquaticum
Paronychia argyrocoma
Media resource of Paronychia argyrocoma
Petrorhagia saxifraga
Media resource of Petrorhagia saxifraga
Porsildia groenlandica
Media resource of Porsildia groenlandica
Psammophiliella muralis
Media resource of Psammophiliella muralis
Sabulina glabra
Media resource of Sabulina glabra
Sabulina groenlandica
Media resource of Sabulina groenlandica
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