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Annual to perennial herb; rarely dioecious (Silene), taprooted or rhizome generally slender.
Leaf: simple, generally opposite (subwhorled), entire, pairs at nodes often ± connected at bases; stipules generally 0; petiole generally 0.
Inflorescence: generally cyme, generally open; flowers 1–many; involucre generally 0 (present in Dianthus, Petrorhagia).
Flower: generally bisexual, radial; hypanthium often present but obscure; sepals (4)5, ± free or fused into a tube, margins generally scarious, more so on inner 2 or not, tube generally not scarious, awns generally 0; petals (4)5 or 0, generally tapered to base (or with claw long, limb expanded), entire to 2–several-lobed, limb generally without scale-like appendages adaxially, generally without ear-like lobes at base; stamens generally 10, generally fertile, generally free, generally from ovary base; nectaries 0 or 5; ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, placentas basal or free-central, styles 2–5 with 0 branches or 1 with 2–3 branches.
Fruit: capsule or utricle (rarely ± dehiscent), generally sessile.
Seed: appendage generally 0 (present in Moehringia).
83 or 89 genera, 3000 species: widespread, especially arctic, alpine, temperate n hemisphere; some cultivated (Agrostemma, Arenaria, Cerastium, Dianthus, Gypsophila, Lychnis, Sagina, Saponaria, Silene, Vaccaria). [Rabeler & Hartman 2005 FNANM 5:3–215] Apetalous Caryophyllaceae can also be keyed in Rabeler & Hartman 2005 FNANM 5:5–8. —Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Annual, perennial herb, erect to mat-forming, taprooted or rhizomed.Key to Minuartia
Leaf: blade thread-like to awl-shaped or narrowly oblong; veins or ribs 1–3.
Inflorescence: terminal or axillary, open to ± dense; flowers 1–many; peduncles, pedicels 0.5–35+ mm.
Flower: hypanthium short, obscure; sepals 5, ± free, 1.9–7 mm, ± lanceolate to ovate, glabrous to glandular-hairy; petals 5 or 0, 0.7–10 mm, entire or notched; stamens on an obscure to prominent disk; styles 3, 0.3–2 mm.
Fruit: capsule, narrowly ovoid to widely elliptic; valves 3, ascending to recurved.
Seed: 1–many, red-tan to red-, purple-, or black-brown.
175 species: arctic to Mex, n Africa, s Asia. (J. Minuart, Spanish botanist, pharmacist, 1693–1768) [Rabeler et al. 2005 FNANM 5:116–136]
Unabridged references: [Meinke & Zika 1992 Madroño 39: 288–300]
Annual, simple or often branched from base, 4–30 cm, finely glandular-hairy at least above, green or purple; taproot thread-like.
Stem: erect to spreading.
Leaf: 5–30 mm, generally 0.3 mm wide, thread-like, becoming curled, flexible, ± evenly spaced; axillary leaves 0.
Flower: sepals 2.5–3.7 mm, obtuse to acute, margin not incurved, ribs generally 3; petals 1.7–2.1 × sepals.
Seed: 1.3–2 mm; margin thin, wing-like, red-brown.
Rocky, sandy slopes, flats in chaparral, oak and pine woodland, often serpentine; 100–1800 m. Northwestern California, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada Foothills, c High Sierra Nevada, Great Central Valley, Central Western California, Southwestern California, Modoc Plateau;
Previous taxon: Minuartia decumbens
Next taxon: Minuartia howellii
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].
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