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Sagina maxima
A. Gray
Family:
Caryophyllaceae
Sticky-Stem Pearlwort
FNA
Resources
Garrett E. Crow in Flora of North America (vol. 5)
Plants
annual or perennial, tufted, glabrous or glandular-pubescent.
Stems
spreading to decumbent or procumbent, much-branched, stout, rarely filiform, distal portion glandular-pubescent.
Leaves:
axillary fascicles absent; basal rosette or tuft of ascending leaves usually present; basal blades linear, 10-30 mm, succulent, apex apiculate, glabrous; cauline leaves conspicuously connate basally, forming shallow, scarious cup, blade linear, fleshy, apex apiculate, glabrous; proximal blades 6-15(-20) mm, distal blades rarely subulate, (2.5-)3.5-7(-9) mm.
Pedicels
slender to stout, glabrous or glandular-pubescent distally.
Flowers
axillary, 5-merous; calyx bases glabrous or glandular-pubescent; sepals ovate to orbiculate, (2-)2.5-3.5 mm, hyaline margins whitish, occasionally purple tinged on margins or apex, apex obtuse to rounded, glabrous or glandular-pubescent, remaining appressed following capsule dehiscence; petals elliptic to nearly orbiculate, (1.5-)2-2.5(-3) mm, shorter than sepals; stamens 10.
Capsules
(3-)3.5-4.5 mm, exceeding sepals, dehiscing ca. 1/4 length.
Seeds
reddish brown, reniform with abaxial groove absent, plump, 0.5 mm, smooth or slightly pebbled.
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