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Largeleaf Sandwort

Moehringia macrophylla (Hook.) Fenzl

Description

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Plants perennial. Rhizomes form-ing extensive network. Stems ascending to erect, simple or branched, ± angled or grooved, 2-18 cm, hairs minute, spreading, peglike. Leaves sessile or subses-sile; petiole 0.1-1 mm; blade 1-3-veined, lanceolate to elliptic, (8-)15-50(-70) × 2-9 mm, margins smooth to minutely granular, often ciliate in proximal 1/ 2, apex acute. Inflorescences 1-5-flowered; bracts 1-4 mm, margins broadly scarious. Pedicels ascending to erect, sometimes divergent in fruit, 2-15 mm. Flowers: sepals 5, midrib ± keeled, ovate, herbaceous portion lanceolate, (2.8-)3-6 mm, apex acute to acuminate; petals 5, 2-6 mm, 3/ 1/ 2 times as long as sepals. Capsules ovoid, 5 mm, ± equaling sepals. Seeds ovoid, 1.5-2.2 mm, tuberculate; tubercles minute, low, rounded. 2n = 48.
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Flora of North America Vol. 5 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Habitat & Distribution

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Flowering late spring-summer. Moist, shaded slopes, rocky ridges, ultramafic outcrops and summits, shores; 200-3400 m.; B.C., Man., Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.), N.W.T., Ont., Que., Sask.; Calif., Colo., Conn., Idaho, Mass., Mich., Mont., N.Mex., Ore., Utah, Vt., Wash., Wis.; Asia.
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Flora of North America Vol. 5 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Synonym

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Arenaria macrophylla Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 102, plate 37. 1831
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Moehringia macrophylla

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Moehringia macrophylla, commonly known as the largeleaf sandwort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to parts of eastern and western North America, where it can be found in moist, shady habitat types, such as mountain forests. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing erect to about 18 centimeters in maximum height. The lance-shaped leaves are up to 5 centimeters long and oppositely arranged about the stem. The inflorescence is a cyme of 2 to 5 flowers, each with 5 pointed green sepals and 5 rounded white petals. The fruit is a toothed black capsule.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Large-leaved Sandwort, Moehringia macrophylla". calscape.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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Moehringia macrophylla: Brief Summary

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Moehringia macrophylla, commonly known as the largeleaf sandwort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to parts of eastern and western North America, where it can be found in moist, shady habitat types, such as mountain forests. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing erect to about 18 centimeters in maximum height. The lance-shaped leaves are up to 5 centimeters long and oppositely arranged about the stem. The inflorescence is a cyme of 2 to 5 flowers, each with 5 pointed green sepals and 5 rounded white petals. The fruit is a toothed black capsule.

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