EcoFlora - Armeria

Armeria
Family: Plumbaginaceae Paul Rothrock	FNA Resources Claude Lefèbvre, Xavier Vekemans in Flora of North America (vol. 5) Plants herbs, perennial, scapose, acaulescent; taprooted, rootstocks branched, woody. Leaves in basal rosettes, sessile; blade linear to linear-spatulate [lanceolate], narrowed or straight to base, margins entire. Scapes glabrous or densely pubescent, sometimes rugose, enclosed by tubular leafless sheath at apex. Inflorescences solitary, apical, dense hemispheric heads of scorpioid cymes, each surrounded by involucre of scarious bracts. Pedicels absent or present (short). Flowers monomorphic or dimorphic (in pollen and stigma characteristics); calyx 10-ribbed, funnel-shaped; tube usually pubescent on ribs only or all around, rarely glabrous, limbs membranaceous, awned or not; petals slightly connate basally, white to deep purple; filaments adnate to base of corolla; anthers included; styles 5, free, hairy proximally; stigmas linear, papillate or smooth. Fruits dry, enclosed in persistent calyces, dehiscing transversely. x = 9.
Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora Armeria alboi Media not available Map not Available Armeria alliacea Map not Available Armeria alpina Map not Available Armeria alpinifolia Media not available Map not Available Armeria arctica Map not Available Armeria arenaria Map not Available Armeria atlantica Media not available Map not Available Armeria caespitosa Map not Available Armeria canescens Map not Available Armeria cantabrica Map not Available Armeria choulettiana Media not available Map not Available Armeria cinerea Map not Available Armeria ebracteata Media not available Map not Available Armeria filicaulis Map not Available Armeria gaditana Media not available Map not Available Armeria girardii Media not available Map not Available Armeria hirta Media not available Map not Available Armeria juncea Media not available Map not Available Armeria juniperifolia Map not Available Armeria labradorica Map not Available Armeria leucocephala Map not Available Armeria longearistata Media not available Map not Available Armeria maderensis Media not available Map not Available Armeria maritima Map not Available Armeria masguindalii Media not available Map not Available Armeria mauritanica Map not Available Armeria montana Media not available Map not Available Armeria nebrodensis Media not available Map not Available Armeria plantaginea Map not Available Armeria pseudarmeria Map not Available Armeria pubigera Media not available Map not Available Armeria pungens Map not Available Armeria rumelica Media not available Map not Available Armeria ruscinonensis Media not available Map not Available Armeria scabra Map not Available Armeria simplex Media not available Map not Available Armeria spinulosa Media not available Map not Available Armeria tingitana Media not available Map not Available Armeria undulata Media not available Map not Available Armeria villosa Media not available Map not Available Armeria vulgaris Map not Available Armeria welwitschii Map not Available