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Annual or perennial herb, generally fleshy
Stems generally glabrous
Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, sometimes stipuled
Inflorescence various
Flower bisexual, radial; sepals generally 2(8), free or fused at base; petals 318, free or ± fused; stamens 1many, free or inserted on corolla; ovary superior or partly inferior, chamber 1, placenta free-central or basal; styles 28, generally fused at base
Fruit: capsule, circumscissile or 23-valved
Seeds 1many, generally black, generally shiny
Genera in family: ± 20 genera, ± 400 species: generally temp Am, Australia, s Africa; some cultivated (Lewisia, Portulaca, Calandrinia )
Reference: [Bogle 1969 J Arnold Arbor 50:566598]
Family description and key to genera by Dieter H. Wilken & Walter A. Kelley.
Annual, perennial herb, ± fleshy, glabrous or glaucous
Stems severalmany, prostrate to erect, 345 cm
Leaves simple, alternate; blade linear to spoon-shaped, cylindric or flat
Inflorescence: raceme or panicle; bracts scarious or leaf-like
Flower: sepals 2, overlapping, persistent in fruit; petals 37, generally 5, red or white; stamens 315; style 3-branched
Fruit: capsule, 3-valved from tip
Seeds many, ovate to ± elliptic, generally black, smooth, finely tuberculate, or with a fine, net-like pattern, short-hairy or not
Species in genus: 150 species: w Am, Australia
Etymology: (J.L. Calandrini, Switzerland, born 1703)
Reference: [Kelley 1973 MS Thesis, CA State Univ, Northridge]
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Annual, glaucous
Stem spreading or ascending
Leaf 16 cm, obovate to spoon-shaped, flat
Inflorescence: panicle, generally above leaves; bracts scarious; pedicels 515 mm, ± straight in fruit
Flower: sepals 35 mm, glaucous, generally purple-veined; petals generally 5, 36 mm, red-purple; stamens generally 5
Fruit generally > calyx
Seeds 2040, 0.51 mm wide, ± elliptic, at 10X dull gray, at 30X black, with short, white hairs
Ecology: UNCOMMON. Sandy soil, sea bluffs
Elevation: < 300 m.
Bioregional distribution: South Coast, Channel Islands
Distribution outside California: Baja California
Horticultural information: DRN, DRY, SUN: 17, 24; DFCLT.