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 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: 83 or 89 genera, 3000 species: widespread, especially arctic, alpine, temperate northern hemisphere; some cultivated (Agrostemma, Arenaria, Cerastium, Dianthus, Gypsophila, Lychnis, Sagina, Saponaria, Silene, Vaccaria). Note: Apetalous Caryophyllaceae can also be keyed in Rabeler & Hartman 2005 FNANM 5:5--8. eFlora Treatment Author: Ronald L. Hartman & Richard K. Rabeler, except as noted Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: BABY'S-BREATH Habit: Annual to perennial herb, erect, taprooted or rhizomed. Leaf: blade +- lanceolate to oblong; veins 1--3, often faint. Inflorescence: generally panicle-like, terminal; flowers +- few to many; pedicels 1--35+ mm. Flower: sepals 5, fused, glabrous or glandular-hairy, tube +- prominent, +- 1.3--5 mm, 0.8--2 mm diam, cup- to bell-shaped, round to angled in ×-section, white-scarious between sepals, veins +- 5, teeth 0.2--1 mm, < tube, lanceolate to triangular; petals 5, +- 2.2--9 mm, claw long, limb entire to notched; styles 2, 1.2--2.5 mm. Fruit: capsule, oblong to spheric; teeth 4, ascending to recurved. Seed: 2--several, black. Species In Genus: 150 species: temperate Eurasia, northern Africa, Australia. Etymology: (Greek: gypsum lover, from habitat of 1 sp.) Reference: Pringle 2005 FNANM 5:153--156
Gypsophila paniculata L.
NATURALIZED Habit: Perennial herb 50--90 cm; rhizome stout. Leaf: blade 2--9 mm wide, +- lanceolate. Inflorescence: openly branched; flowers many; pedicels glabrous. Flower: calyx 1--3 mm, glabrous; petals 1.5--2 × calyx, white. Chromosomes: 2n=34,68. Ecology: Disturbed areas; Elevation: 1200--2100 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCoRI, CaRH, n&c SNH, SnJV, CCo, SCoRO, SCo, GB, DMoj; Distribution Outside California: to British Columbia, northeastern North America; native to central and eastern Europe, adjacent Asia. Flowering Time: Summer--fall Note: Infestations widely scattered. Synonyms: Gypsophila paniculata var. paniculata Jepson eFlora Author: Ronald L. Hartman & Richard K. Rabeler Reference: Pringle 2005 FNANM 5:153--156 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Weed listed by Cal-IPC Previous taxon: Gypsophila elegans Next taxon: Gypsophila scorzonerifolia
Botanical illustration including Gypsophila paniculata
Citation for this treatment: Ronald L. Hartman & Richard K. Rabeler 2012, Gypsophila paniculata, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=27446, accessed on July 02, 2022.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2022, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on July 02, 2022.
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