SPREADING SANDWORT
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Minuartia patula (Michx. ) Mattf.
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| [=Arenaria patula Michx.] |
| Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| Annual |
| Height: 2-12 inches |
| Family: Caryophyllaceae - Pink Family |
| Flowering Period: April, May, June, July |
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| Stems: | | Ascending to erect, simple or branched, glabrous or sometimes stipitate-glandular. | | Leaves: | | Opposite; stipules absent; petiole absent; blade linear, .2 to .8 inch long, .02 to .07, base clasping, apex obtuse to prickly-pointed; without fascicles of secondary leaves in axils of primary leaves. | | Inflorescences: | | Open, terminal cymes or flowers solitary and terminal or axillary, 5-30-flowered. | | Flowers: | | Pedicels spreading to ascending, .12 to 1.2 inch; sepals 5, lanceolate, .16 to inch, apex acute to acuminate; petals 5, white, oblanceolate, .28 to .4 inch, apex emarginated; stamens 10; styles 3. | | Fruits: | | Capsules, narrowly ellipsoid, .12 to .16 inch; seeds reddish brown to black, nearly round, minute, tuberculate. | | Habitat: | | Rocky tallgrass prairies, glades, rock outcrops | | Distribution: | | East 1/3 of Kansas | | Comments: | | Minuartia, for Juan Minuart, a 18th Century Spanish botanist and pharmacist and patula spreading. |
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