Common Name: CARPET-WEED FAMILY Habit: Annual [perennial herb, shrub], glabrous or hairy. Stem: prostrate to erect. Leaf: simple, generally basal and cauline, alternate, opposite, or whorled, entire, (fleshy), petioled [not]; stipules 0 or small, deciduous. Inflorescence: axillary or terminal cyme [umbel] or flowers 1; flowers pedicelled or not. Flower: generally bisexual, small, radial; sepals 4--5, free or fused, persistent; corolla 0 or small (= staminodes); stamens 2--25, free or fused basally, on hypanthium, alternate sepals, petal-like or not; nectary a ring; ovary superior, chambers [1]3--5[10], placentas generally axile, styles [0]1 or 3--5, generally free. Fruit: 3--5-valved capsule [achene]. Seed: 1 or more per chamber, reniform to lenticular, arilled or not. Genera In Family: 14 genera, 125 species: generally tropics, subtropics, especially Africa. eFlora Treatment Author: Michael A. Vincent & Wayne R. Ferren, Jr. Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: CARPET-WEED Habit: Annual [perennial herb], glabrous. Stem: prostrate to erect, slender, branched from base. Leaf: generally whorled, linear to oblanceolate; stipules +- 0. Inflorescence: axillary, terminal, cyme, umbel [flowers 1]; pedicel 3--30 mm. Flower: sepals 5, free, margins +- scarious; petals 0; stamens 3--5, fused basally; styles 3--5, linear. Fruit: 3-valved, included in calyx. Seed: many, reniform, smooth, ridged, or finely net-sculptured; aril 0. Etymology: (Greek: soft or pliant) Note: Worldwide revision of genus needed.
Mollugo verticillata L.
NATURALIZED Habit: Annual, mat-forming, < 50 cm diam, glabrous. Stem: forked unequally. Leaf: in whorls of 3--8, 5--40 mm. Inflorescence: flowers 2--6. Flower: sepals 1.5--2.5 mm, oblong-elliptic; stamens 3 mm; stigmas 3, +- sessile. Fruit: ovoid-ellipsoid. Seed: dark- or red-brown. Chromosomes: 2n=64. Ecology: Common. Moist, exposed, disturbed wetland margins, roadsides, fields; Elevation: < 1000 m. Bioregional Distribution: CA-FP, SNE; Distribution Outside California: North America; native to tropical America. Flowering Time: May--Nov Jepson eFlora Author: Michael A. Vincent & Wayne R. Ferren, Jr. Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Mollugo cerviana Next taxon: Montiaceae
Botanical illustration including Mollugo verticillata
Citation for this treatment: Michael A. Vincent & Wayne R. Ferren, Jr. 2012, Mollugo verticillata, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=33883, accessed on April 18, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 18, 2024.
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