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: BABY'S-BREATH Habit: Annual to perennial herb, erect, taprooted or rhizomed. Leaf: blade +- lanceolate to oblong or ovate; veins 1--3, often faint. Inflorescence: generally panicle-like, terminal; flowers +- few to many; pedicels 1--40+ mm. Flower: sepals 5, fused, glabrous or glandular-hairy, tube +- prominent, +- 1.3--17 mm, 0.8--9 mm diam, cup- to bell-shaped or cylindric to urn-shaped, round to angled or keeled in ×-section, white-scarious between sepals or not, veins +- 5, teeth 0.2--3 mm, < tube, lanceolate or ovate to triangular; petals 5, +- 1--10 or (11)15--25 mm, white or light pink to purplish; claw barely differentiated or long, limb entire to notched; styles 2, 1.2--2.5 or 10--12 mm. Fruit: capsule, oblong to ovoid or spheric; teeth 4, ascending to recurved. Seed: 2--several, red-brown to black. Etymology: (Greek: gypsum lover, from habitat of 1 sp.) eFlora Treatment Author: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler Reference: Pringle 2005 FNANM 5:153--156; Madhani et al. 2018 Taxon 67:83--112
Gypsophila vaccaria (L.) Sm.
NATURALIZED Habit: Annual (8)20--100 cm, glabrous, glaucous, taprooted. Leaf: blade 8--30 mm wide, petioled or not, lanceolate to ovate, base rounded to cordate-clasping. Inflorescence: +- flat-topped, open; flowers 10--70+; pedicels glabrous. Flower: calyx tube 7.5--17 mm, 1.5--9 mm diam, cylindric to urn-shaped, angles or keels 5, each with +- green wing < 1 mm wide, glabrous, teeth 1.5--3 mm, ovate to triangular; petals (11)15--25 mm, limb oblanceolate to obovate or obcordate, pink to +- red; styles 10--12 mm. Chromosomes: 2n=30. Ecology: Disturbed areas; Elevation: < 2800 m. Bioregional Distribution: KR, NCoR, CaRH, c SNF, n SNH, Teh, ScV, CW, SCo, PR, GB; Distribution Outside California: +- North America; native to Eurasia, Mediterranean. Flowering Time: May--Aug Note: Likely eradicated from grain fields. Synonyms: Saponaria hispanica Mill.; Saponaria vaccaria L.; Vaccaria segetalis (Necker) Asch.; Vaccaria hispanica (Mill.) Rauschert Jepson eFlora Author: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler Reference: Pringle 2005 FNANM 5:153--156; Madhani et al. 2018 Taxon 67:83--112 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Gypsophila scorzonerifolia Next taxon: Hartmaniella
Botanical illustration including Gypsophila vaccaria
Citation for this treatment: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler 2012, Gypsophila vaccaria, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=82771, accessed on December 04, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 04, 2024.
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Geographic subdivisions for Gypsophila vaccaria:
KR, NCoR, CaRH, c SNF, n SNH, Teh, ScV, CW, SCo, PR, GB
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