Common Name: PINK FAMILY Habit: 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 most 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). Genera In Family: +- 100 genera, 3000 species: widespread, especially arctic, alpine, temperate northern hemisphere; some cultivated (Agrostemma, Arenaria, Atocion, Cerastium, Dianthus, Gypsophila, Lychnis, Sagina, Saponaria, Silene). Note: Apetalous Caryophyllaceae can also be keyed in Rabeler & Hartman 2005 FNANM 5:5--8. Taxa of Minuartia in TJM2 treated here in Cherleria and Sabulina; Pseudostellaria in Hartmaniella and Torreyostellaria; Vaccaria in Gypsophila; Velezia in Dianthus. eFlora Treatment Author: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler, except as noted Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin & Thomas J. Rosatti.
Habit: Annual, erect, taprooted. Leaf: petioled or not, linear to oblanceolate; vein 1. Inflorescence: terminal, +- open; flowers 1--few; peduncles, pedicels 1--7+ cm. Flower: sepals generally 4, free, 3.8--7 mm, lanceolate, glabrous; petals (0)4, 2.5--6 mm, entire; stamens 4 or 8; styles generally 4, 0.7--1 mm. Fruit: capsule, cylindric, straight in upper 1/2; teeth 8, recurved. Seed: many, red-brown. Etymology: (C. Moench, German naturalist, 1744--1805) eFlora Treatment Author: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler Reference: Rabeler & Hartman 2005 FNANM 5:93
Moenchia erecta (L.) G. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb.COMMON NAME: UPRIGHT CHICKWEED subsp. erecta
NATURALIZED Habit: Plant glabrous, glaucous. Stem: 2.5--15 cm. Leaf: basal +- petioled, 5--18 mm, +- oblanceolate; cauline sessile, 3--12 mm, linear to lance-linear, ascending, rigid. Flower: sepal veins 3, lateral faint; petals lanceolate, white. Chromosomes: 2n=38. Ecology: Disturbed areas; Elevation: 200--600 m. Bioregional Distribution: n&c SNF, n CCo (Marin Co.); Distribution Outside California: to British Columbia, also Illinois, South Carolina; native to southwestern Europe. Flowering Time: Spring Unabridged Note: According to Doreen Smith, observed at Sea Ranch, Sonoma Co., which, if verified, would expand range to include southern NCo. 1 other variety, native to western Mediterranean, introduced in southern Africa, Australia. Jepson eFlora Author: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler Reference: Rabeler & Hartman 2005 FNANM 5:93 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Moenchia Next taxon: Paronychia
Citation for this treatment: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler 2012, Moenchia erecta subsp. erecta, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=77173, accessed on April 23, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 23, 2024.
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