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Caryophyllaceae

Caryophyllaceae
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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 checklist: NYC EcoFlora - cultivated and such || << 1 - 50 taxa >>
Arenaria bryoides
Media resource of Arenaria bryoides
Arenaria laricifolia
Media resource of Arenaria laricifolia
Arenaria norvegica
Media resource of Arenaria norvegica
Cerastium grandiflorum
Media resource of Cerastium grandiflorum
Cerastium oblongifolium
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Cerastium purpurascens
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Cerastium tomentosum
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Cerastium velutinum
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Dianthus alpinus
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Dianthus arenarius
Media resource of Dianthus arenarius
Dianthus carthusianorum
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Dianthus caryophyllus
Media resource of Dianthus caryophyllus
Dianthus chinensis
Media resource of Dianthus chinensis
Dianthus furcatus
Media resource of Dianthus furcatus
Dianthus gratianopolitanus
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Dianthus liburnicus
Media resource of Dianthus liburnicus
Dianthus nardiformis
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Dianthus plumarius
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Dianthus pungens
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Dianthus sternbergii
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Dianthus strictus
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Dianthus subacaulis
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Dianthus superbus
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Dianthus trifasciculatus
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Dianthus virgineus
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Drymaria cordata
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Gypsophila acutifolia
Media resource of Gypsophila acutifolia
Gypsophila arvensis
Media resource of Gypsophila arvensis
Gypsophila cerastoides
Media resource of Gypsophila cerastoides
Gypsophila elegans
Media resource of Gypsophila elegans
Gypsophila muralis
Media resource of Gypsophila muralis
Gypsophila paniculata
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Gypsophila perfoliata
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Gypsophila repens
Media resource of Gypsophila repens
Herniaria glabra
Media resource of Herniaria glabra
Herniaria hirsuta
Media resource of Herniaria hirsuta
Lychnis alpina
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Lychnis chalcedonica
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Lychnis coronaria
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Lychnis flos-jovis
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Lychnis fulgens
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Lychnis viscaria
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Minuartia tenella
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Minuartia yukonensis
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Mononeuria groenlandica
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Paronychia argyrocoma
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Paronychia dichotoma
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Petrorhagia prolifera
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Petrorhagia saxifraga
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Sagina apetala
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