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Paronychia jonesii
M.C. Johnst.
Family:
Caryophyllaceae
Jones' Nailwort
FNA
Resources
Ronald L. Hartman, John W. Thieret, Richard K. Rabeler in Flora of North America (vol. 5)
Plants
annual; taproot slender.
Stems
prostrate, sprawling-spreading, much-branched, 10-35 cm, short-pubescent.
Leaves:
sti-pules ovate, 3-7.5 mm, apex acu-minate, entire; blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 5-18 × 1.5-3.5 mm, leathery, apex obtuse to very short-cuspidate, densely appressed-pubescent.
Cymes
terminal and subterminal, occa-sionally axillary, 3-7-flowered, congested, clusters 3-8 mm wide.
Flowers
5-merous, ± extended-urceolate, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx constricted proximally, flaring distally, 1.8-2 mm, pubescent with short, hooked hairs proximally; sepals red-brown, often finely striped or mottled, veins absent, spatulate-obovate to suboblong, 0.8-1.3 mm, leathery to rigid, margins white, 0.1-0.2 mm wide, papery, apex terminated by awn, broadly rounded, awn divergent, 0.3-0.4 mm, broadly conic in proximal 1/ 1/ 2 with white, scabrous spine; staminodes filiform, 0.5-0.6 mm; style 1, 0.7-0.8 mm, cleft in distal 5.
Utricles
globose, 0.8-1 mm, smooth, glabrous.
Flowering spring-summer. Sandy, open grounds; 10-40 m; Tex.
Paronychia jonesii
most closely resembles
P. drummondii
and is known only from southeastern coastal Texas.
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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