Blutaparon vermiculare

(Linnaeus) Mears

Taxon 31: 113. 1982.

Common names: Silverweed saltweed samphire
Illustrated
Basionym: Gomphrena vermicularis Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 1: 224. 1753
Synonyms: Philoxerus vermicularis (Linnaeus)R Brown ex Smith
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 456.

Plants perennial or occasionally annual, 3–20 dm. Stems mostly prostrate with ascending branches, much-branched, glabrous. Leaf-blades linear to linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 15–55 × 2–12 mm. Inflorescences: heads white or pinkish (drying silvery white), globose or cylindric, 7–30 × 7–10 mm; bracteoles slightly shorter than flowers. Flowers very short-pedicellate; tepals connate basally, white, oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, thickened basally, 3–5 mm, chartaceous, apex of outer tepals obtuse, apex of inner tepals acute, spinose-tipped, densely villose. Utricles indehiscent or splitting irregularly, included in tepals, 1.3 mm. Seeds 0.8–1 mm.


Phenology: Flowering year-round.
Habitat: Saline soils, sands of beaches, dunes, sand bars
Elevation: 0-10 m

Distribution

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Fla., La., Tex., Mexico, Central America

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Blutaparon vermiculare"
acute;obtuse +
Steven E. Clemants +
(Linnaeus) Mears +
Gomphrena vermicularis +
linear +  and narrowly obovate +
Silverweed +, saltweed +  and samphire +
Fla. +, La. +, Tex. +, Mexico +  and Central America +
0-10 m +
peripheral +
short-pedicellate +
hypogynous +
minute +  and small +
not +  and dehiscent +
Saline soils, sands of beaches, dunes, sand bars +
pinkish +  and white +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
cylindric +  and globose +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
cylindric +  and globose +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (5.5 cm55 mm <br />0.055 m <br />) +
linear +  and linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate +
Flowering year-round. +
dark-brown +
orbicular +
0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
Illustrated +
much-branched +
creeping +  and procumbent +
subulate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (?) +
Philoxerus vermicularis +
Blutaparon vermiculare +
Blutaparon +
species +
compressed +  and oblong +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
indurate +, membranaceous +, chartaceous +  and scarious +
splitting +  and indehiscent +
ovoid +  and compressed +
1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br /> (?) +
coriaceous +
annual +  and perennial +