False Jagged Ckickweed

Although known in North America only since 1959, Lepyrodiclis holosteoides is a serious menace in pea and wheat plantings, where it grows quickly and often overtops the crops. It is listed as a noxious weed in Washington and Oregon; I am not aware of any documented occurrences in Oregon.

If Lepyrodiclis stellarioides Schrenk ex Fischer & C. A. Meyer is included as a variety of L. holosteoides (see Y. P. Kozhevnikov 1985), North American plants are var. holosteoides

This species is used medicinally.

Stems 40-100 cm, glabrous or papillate. Leaf blades 1-8 × 0.3-1 cm, margins glandular-dentate. Flowers: sepals 4-5 mm; petals 1-1.5 times as long as sepals. Capsules globose-ovoid, 3 mm, shorter than calyx. Seeds 1.8-2 mm. 2n = 34, 68 (both Asia).

Stems 40--100 cm tall, longitudinally striate, middle and distal internodes ca. 10 cm, glandular pubescent. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 3--7 cm × 2--5(--10) mm, adaxially pilose, densely so at midvein, base attenuate, margin glandular pubescent, apex acuminate. Panicle of cymes terminal or axillary, spreading; bracts lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, herbaceous. Pedicel 1--2 (--3) cm, slender, densely glandular pubescent. Sepals linear-lanceolate, 4--5 mm, abaxially sparsely glandular pubescent, margin narrowly membranous, apex acute. Petals white, broadly obovate, subequaling or slightly longer than sepals, margin entire. Styles 2. Capsule globose-ovoid, shorter than sepals, 2-valved. Seeds red-brown, compressed ovate. Fl. May--Jul, fr. Jul--Aug. 2n = 34, 68.

Gansu, Henan, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang [Afghanistan, NW India, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan; C and SW Asia].

introduced; Idaho, Wash.; c, sw Asia; introduced in Europe (Germany), Asia (Japan).

C. & W. Asia, Afghanistan, Himalaya (Kashmir to Nepal), W. Tibet, Mongolia, N.W. China.

3900-4100 m

Flowering spring.

Disturbed areas, pea and wheat fields; 500-800m.

Mountain slope grasslands, farmland, wastegrounds, forest margins, ditch sides, Gobi Desert; 1200--4100 m.

Gouffeia holosteoides C. A. Meyer, Verz. Caucasus Pfl. 217. 1831; Arenaria holosteoides (C. A. Meyer) Edgeworth.

Gouffeia holosteoides C. A. Meyer, Verz. Pfl. Casp. Meer., 217. 1831

Lepyrodiclis holosteoides là loài thực vật có hoa thuộc họ Cẩm chướng. Loài này được (C.A. Mey.) Fenzl ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1841.

薄蒴草（学名：Lepyrodiclis holosteoides）是石竹科薄蒴草属的植物。分布在印度、中亚、克什米尔地区、尼泊尔、阿富汗、蒙古、高加索、伊朗、巴基斯坦以及中国大陆的西藏、内蒙古、陕西、新疆、青海、宁夏、甘肃、四川等地，生长于海拔1,200米至2,800米的地区，多生长于山坡草地、荒芜农地或林缘，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。