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Myosoton
Myosoton
Family:
Caryophyllaceae
Nathanael Pilla
FNA
Resources
Richard K. Rabeler in Flora of North America (vol. 5)
Herbs,
perennial.
Taproots
slender, rhizomes slender.
Stems
decumbent to ascending, simple or branched, terete to angular.
Leaves
sessile leaves clasping proximally, petiolate (proximal leaves) or sessile (most cauline leaves); blade 1-veined, ovate to broadly elliptic, not succulent, apex acute.
Inflorescences
axillary or terminal, open cymes; bracts paired, foliaceous, smaller.
Pedicels
ascending to erect, reflexed in fruit.
Flowers
bisexual, occasionally pistillate or reduced and sterile; perianth and androecium weakly perigynous; hypanthium minimal; sepals 5, distinct, green, ovate, 4-6(-9) mm, herbaceous, margins green or white, herbaceous or scarious, apex acute, not hooded; petals 5, white, claw absent, blade apex deeply 2-fid; nectaries at base of filaments opposite sepals; stamens 10, occasionally fewer, arising from nectariferous disc at ovary base; filaments distinct; staminodes sometimes present, linear; styles 5(-6), distinct, filiform, 0.7-1.8 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 5(-6), linear along adaxial surface of styles, papillate (30×).
Capsules
ovoid to globose-ovoid, opening by 5(-6), slightly recurved, briefly 2-fid valves; carpophore absent.
Seeds
50-100, brown-blackish, reniform, laterally compressed, papillate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent.
x
= 14.
Species within checklist:
NICHES Land Trust: Crow’s Grove Preserve
Myosoton aquaticum
Map not
Available