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: SAND-SPURREY Habit: Annual, perennial herb, erect to sprawling; taprooted. Leaf: thread-like to linear, vein 1; stipules 1--11 mm, lanceolate to widely triangular, scarious, +- entire or splitting +- at tip, white to tan. Inflorescence: terminal, open to dense; flowers few to many; pedicels 0.5--28+ mm. Flower: sepals 5, united in basal 1/5, 1.5--10 mm, lanceolate to ovate, glabrous to glandular-hairy; petals 5, 0.6--9 mm, entire; stamens 2--10; styles 3, 0.3--1.9 mm. Fruit: capsule, ovoid; valves 3, spreading, tip recurved. Seed: few to many, dark brown, red-brown, or black, often winged. Etymology: (Latin: derivative of Spergula) eFlora Treatment Author: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler Reference: Hartman & Rabeler 2005 FNANM 5:16--23
Spergularia rubra (L.) J. Presl & C. Presl
NATURALIZED Habit: Annual or short-lived perennial herb, delicate. Stem: lower main 0.3--0.5 mm diam. Leaf: barely fleshy, 2--4+ per axillary cluster; stipules generally 3.5--5 mm, conspicuous, lanceolate, shiny, white, tip +- long-acuminate. Inflorescence: 1--3+ × compound or flowers 1 in axils; glandular-hairy. Flower: sepals fused 0.5--0.7 mm, lobes 2--3.2 mm, in fruit < 4 mm; petals pink; stamens 6--10; styles 0.6--0.8 mm. Fruit: 3.5--5 mm, 1--1.2 × calyx. Seed: 0.4--0.6 mm, red-brown to dark brown, wing 0; sculpture worm-like, minutely papillate. Chromosomes: 2n=18,36,54. Ecology: Open forest, gravelly glades, meadows, mud flats, disturbed areas; Elevation: < 2400 m. Bioregional Distribution: NW, CaR, c SNF, n&c SNH, GV, CW, SCo, SnGb, PR, DMtns; Distribution Outside California: to Yukon Territory, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, eastern North America, South America; native to Mediterranean, Asia. Flowering Time: Spring--fall Jepson eFlora Author: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler Reference: Hartman & Rabeler 2005 FNANM 5:16--23 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Spergularia platensis var. platensis Next taxon: Spergularia villosa
Botanical illustration including Spergularia rubra
Citation for this treatment: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler 2012, Spergularia rubra, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=45090, accessed on October 15, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on October 15, 2024.
Geographic subdivisions for Spergularia rubra:
NW, CaR, c SNF, n&c SNH, GV, CW, SCo, SnGb, PR, DMtns
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