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.
Common Name: PEARLWORT Habit: Annual, perennial herb, tufted to matted, taprooted. Leaf: linear to awl-shaped, generally not fleshy; vein 0--1. Inflorescence: terminal or axillary; flower 1; pedicels 2--30 mm. Flower: sepals 4--5, free, 1.3--3.5 mm, lanceolate to ovate, glabrous to glandular-hairy; petals 0 or 4--5, 1--3 mm, entire or notched; stamens 4, 5, 8, 10; styles 4--5, 0.1--0.6 mm. Fruit: capsule, ovoid; valves 4--5, spreading to recurved. Seed: many, generally obliquely triangular, +- compressed, brown or red-brown. Etymology: (Latin: fatten, from early use as forage) eFlora Treatment Author: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler Reference: Crow 2005 FNANM 5:140--147
Sagina saginoides (L.) H. Karst.
NATIVE Habit: Perennial herb (1)2--12 cm, glabrous; sterile basal rosettes often present. Stem: slender, ascending or decumbent. Leaf: blade (3)5--15 mm, narrowly linear. Inflorescence: pedicels 10--30 mm, thread-like, recurved in flower, straight in fruit. Flower: sepals 5, +- appressed in fruit, 1.5--2.5 mm; petals 5, 3/4--1 × sepals; stamens generally 10. Fruit: 1.5--2 × sepals. Seed: 0.2--0.4 mm, smooth or slightly roughened, brown; back grooved. Chromosomes: 2n=22. Ecology: Moist banks, streamsides, dry creeks; Elevation: (100)1000--3800 m. Bioregional Distribution: KR, NCoRO, NCoRH, CaRH, SN, TR, PR, GB; Distribution Outside California: to Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Mexico; circumboreal. Flowering Time: May--Sep Synonyms: Sagina saginoides var. hesperia Fernald Jepson eFlora Author: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler Reference: Crow 2005 FNANM 5:140--147 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Sagina procumbens Next taxon: Sagina subulata
Botanical illustration including Sagina saginoides
Citation for this treatment: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler 2012, Sagina saginoides, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=42585, accessed on March 28, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on March 28, 2024.
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