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: SANDWORT Habit: Annual, perennial herb, erect to mat-forming, taprooted or rhizomed. Leaf: blade thread-like to awl-shaped or narrowly oblong; veins or ribs 1--3. Inflorescence: terminal or axillary, open to +- dense; flowers 1--many; peduncles, pedicels 0.5--35+ mm. Flower: hypanthium short, obscure; sepals 5, +- free, 1.9--7 mm, +- lanceolate to ovate, glabrous to glandular-hairy; petals 5 or 0, 0.7--10 mm, entire or notched; stamens on an obscure to prominent disk; styles 3, 0.3--2 mm. Fruit: capsule, narrowly ovoid to widely elliptic; valves 3, ascending to recurved. Seed: 1--many, red-tan to red-, purple-, or black-brown. Species In Genus: 175 species: arctic to Mexico, northern Africa, southern Asia. Etymology: (J. Minuart, Spanish botanist, pharmacist, 1693--1768) Reference: Rabeler et al. 2005 FNANM 5:116--136 Unabridged Reference: Meinke & Zika 1992 Madroño 39: 288--300
Minuartia stolonifera T.W. Nelson & J.P. Nelson
NATIVE Habit: Perennial herb, mat-forming, 10--20 cm, +- glabrous to sparsely glandular-hairy, gray-green; taproot > 3 mm diam; trailing stems or stolons 6--20+ cm. Stem: in flower +- erect. Leaf: 5--9 mm, 0.5--0.9 mm wide, often < internodes, needle-like, +- straight, rigid; axillary leaves weakly developed. Flower: sepals 3.5--4.8 mm, narrowly acute to acuminate, margin not incurved, veins 1--3, faint in flower; petals 1.6--1.8 × sepals. Seed: 2--2.4 mm; margin thick, red-brown to brown. Ecology: Serpentine soils, Jeffrey-pine forest; Elevation: 1250--1400 m. Bioregional Distribution: s KR (Scott Mtn, Siskiyou Co.). Flowering Time: Spring--summer Jepson eFlora Author: Ronald L. Hartman & Richard K. Rabeler Reference: Rabeler et al. 2005 FNANM 5:116--136 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Minuartia rubella Next taxon: Minuartia stricta
Botanical illustration including Minuartia stolonifera
Citation for this treatment: Ronald L. Hartman & Richard K. Rabeler 2012, Minuartia stolonifera, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=33772, accessed on May 23, 2022.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2022, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on May 23, 2022.
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