EcoFlora - Arenaria

Arenaria
Family: Caryophyllaceae Max Licher	FNA Gleason & Cronquist Resources Ronald L. Hartman, Richard K. Rabeler, Frederick H. Utech in Flora of North America (vol. 5) Plants annual or perennial, sometimes densely matted. Taproots filiform to moderately thickened; rhizomes slender. Stems prostrate to ascending or erect, simple or branched, terete to ellipsoid, angular or grooved. Leaves mostly connate, mostly sessile, not congested at or near base of flowering stem; blade 1- or 3-5-veined, rarely linear or linear-lanceolate to usually elliptic to ovate or rarely orbiculate, sometimes subsucculent or succulent, apex blunt or obtuse to acute, acuminate, or apiculate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary open cymes, or flowers solitary; bracts paired, smaller, foliaceous. Pedicels erect or ascending to reflexed in fruit. Flowers: perianth and androecium hypogynous; sepals 5, distinct or barely connate proximally, green or rarely distally purple, lanceolate to broadly ovate, 2-5 mm, margins foliaceous or white and scarious, apex obtuse to rounded or acute to acuminate, not hooded; petals 5 or absent, white, not clawed, blade apex entire; nectaries at base of filaments opposite sepals; stamens 10 (ca. 8 in A. livermorensis), arising from base of ovary; filaments distinct; staminodes absent; styles 3, filiform, 0.5-2 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 3, linear along adaxial surfaces of styles, papillate (30×). Capsules broadly ellipsoid or ovoid to cylindric, opening by 6 ascending to recurved teeth; carpophore absent. Seeds [1-]5-35, brown to dark brown or black, reniform or suborbicular, laterally compressed or not, shiny or dull, smooth, rugulose, or tuberculate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent. x = [7, 8-] 10, 11. Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Fls solitary or in terminal cymes; sep 5; pet 5, white, entire to emarginate; stamens normally 10; styles (2)3(-5); ovary unilocular; ovules numerous; primary valves of the capsule 3, entire or 2-cleft; seeds ±reniform; low annual or perennial herbs without stipules. (Minuartia, Moehringia, Sabulina) 250, widespread Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: Sage-Grouse Preferred Forbs, NV \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Arenaria aequicaulis Map not Available Arenaria affinis Media not available Map not Available Arenaria aggregata Map not Available Arenaria alfacarensis Map not Available Arenaria alsinoides Map not Available Arenaria armerina Map not Available Arenaria balansae Map not Available Arenaria balearica Map not Available Arenaria benthamii Map not Available Arenaria bertolonii Media not available Map not Available Arenaria biflora Map not Available Arenaria bisulca Media not available Map not Available Arenaria bourgaei Map not Available Arenaria brevifolia Map not Available Arenaria bryoides Map not Available Arenaria caespitosa Media not available Map not Available Arenaria cerastioides Map not Available Arenaria chamissonis Map not Available Arenaria chiapensis Media not available Map not Available Arenaria ciliata Map not Available Arenaria cinerea Map not Available Arenaria compacta Map not Available Arenaria conimbricensis Map not Available Arenaria cretica Map not Available Arenaria crilloniana Map not Available Arenaria cylindricarpa Media not available Map not Available Arenaria dawsonensis Map not Available Arenaria debilis Map not Available Arenaria deflexa Map not Available Arenaria densissima Map not Available Arenaria dianthoides Media not available Map not Available Arenaria dicranoides Media not available Map not Available Arenaria diffusa Map not Available Arenaria drummondii Map not Available Arenaria dyris Map not Available Arenaria elegans Map not Available Arenaria fasciculata Map not Available Arenaria filicaulis Media not available Map not Available Arenaria foliacea Media not available Map not Available Arenaria fontinalis Map not Available Arenaria glabra Map not Available Arenaria gothica Map not Available Arenaria gracilis Map not Available Arenaria graminifolia Media not available Map not Available Arenaria grandiflora Map not Available Arenaria gregaria Map not Available Arenaria groenlandica Map not Available Arenaria guicciardii Map not Available Arenaria gypsophiloides Map not Available Arenaria gypsostrata $Media resource of Arenaria gypsostrata$ Map not Available