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Caryophyllaceae

Caryophyllaceae
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Cecelia Alexander
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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 inventory project: Arizona Flora || << 1 - 50 taxa >>
Achyronychia cooperi
Media resource of Achyronychia cooperi
Arenaria lanuginosa
Media resource of Arenaria lanuginosa
Arenaria serpyllifolia
Media resource of Arenaria serpyllifolia
Cerastium arvense
Media resource of Cerastium arvense
Cerastium beeringianum
Media resource of Cerastium beeringianum
Cerastium brachypodum
Media resource of Cerastium brachypodum
Cerastium fastigiatum
Media resource of Cerastium fastigiatum
Cerastium fontanum
Media resource of Cerastium fontanum
Cerastium glomeratum
Media resource of Cerastium glomeratum
Cerastium gracile
Media resource of Cerastium gracile
Cerastium nutans
Media resource of Cerastium nutans
Cerastium sordidum
Media resource of Cerastium sordidum
Cerastium texanum
Media resource of Cerastium texanum
Cerastium tomentosum
Media resource of Cerastium tomentosum
Cherleria obtusiloba
Media resource of Cherleria obtusiloba
Dianthus armeria
Media resource of Dianthus armeria
Dianthus barbatus
Media resource of Dianthus barbatus
Dianthus caryophyllus
Media resource of Dianthus caryophyllus
Dianthus chinensis
Media resource of Dianthus chinensis
Dianthus deltoides
Media resource of Dianthus deltoides
Drymaria depressa
Media resource of Drymaria depressa
Drymaria effusa
Media resource of Drymaria effusa
Drymaria glandulosa
Media resource of Drymaria glandulosa
Drymaria leptophylla
Media resource of Drymaria leptophylla
Drymaria molluginea
Media resource of Drymaria molluginea
Drymaria pachyphylla
Media resource of Drymaria pachyphylla
Drymaria viscosa
Media resource of Drymaria viscosa
Eremogone aberrans
Media resource of Eremogone aberrans
Eremogone aculeata
Media resource of Eremogone aculeata
Eremogone congesta
Media resource of Eremogone congesta
Eremogone eastwoodiae
Media resource of Eremogone eastwoodiae
Eremogone fendleri
Media resource of Eremogone fendleri
Eremogone ferrisiae
Media resource of Eremogone ferrisiae
Eremogone macradenia
Media resource of Eremogone macradenia
Gypsophila paniculata
Media resource of Gypsophila paniculata
Herniaria hirsuta
Media resource of Herniaria hirsuta
Loeflingia squarrosa
Media resource of Loeflingia squarrosa
Minuartia filiorum
Media resource of Minuartia filiorum
Paronychia jamesii
Media resource of Paronychia jamesii
Paronychia sessiliflora
Media resource of Paronychia sessiliflora
Pseudostellaria jamesiana
Media resource of Pseudostellaria jamesiana
Sabulina douglasii
Media resource of Sabulina douglasii
Sabulina macrantha
Media resource of Sabulina macrantha
Sabulina rubella
Media resource of Sabulina rubella
Sagina decumbens
Media resource of Sagina decumbens
Sagina saginoides
Media resource of Sagina saginoides
Saponaria officinalis
Media resource of Saponaria officinalis
Silene acaulis
Media resource of Silene acaulis
Silene antirrhina
Media resource of Silene antirrhina
Silene drummondii
Media resource of Silene drummondii
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