Paronychia canadensis

(Linnaeus) Alph. Wood

Class-Book Bot. ed. s.n.(b), 262. 1861.

Common names: Smooth-forked nailwort forked-chickweed
IllustratedEndemic
Basionym: Queria canadensis Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 1: 90. 1753
Synonyms: Anychia canadensis (Linnaeus) Elliott
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 34. Mentioned on page 31.

Plants annual; taproot filiform to slender. Stems erect, dichotomously branched, 3–40 cm, ultimate branches filiform, glabrous. Leaves: stipules subulate to lanceolate, 0.5–4 mm, apex acuminate, entire; blade usually dotted or blotched, elliptic to obovate, 3–30 × 1–11 mm, herbaceous, apex acute to obtuse or cuspidate, glabrous. Cymes diffuse, flowers solitary (paired) in axils of leafy bracts. Flowers 5-merous, ± short-cylindric, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx cylindric, 0.9–1.3 mm, glabrous; sepals greenish to brownish, midrib and lateral pair of veins prominent, ovate to oblong, 0.5–1 mm, herbaceous, margins white to translucent, 0.03–0.1 mm wide, scarious, apex terminated by mucro, hood rounded-triangular, mucro triangular, 0.07–0.15 mm, glabrous; staminodes absent or indistinct; styles 2, 0.2–0.3 mm. Utricles ovoid to globose, ca. 0.5 mm, granular in distal 1/2, glabrous.


Phenology: Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat: Woodlands, thickets, fields, clearings, roadsides, waste places
Elevation: 0-1300 m

Distribution

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Ont., Ala., Ark., Conn., Del., D.C., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., La., Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Mo., Nebr., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"/10" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property. "/10" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

... more about "Paronychia canadensis"
awned +  and hooded +
ascending +  and slightly descending +
acute;obtuse or cuspidate +
Ronald L. Hartman +, John W. Thieret +  and Richard K. Rabeler +
(Linnaeus) Alph. Wood +
prominent +
stipulate +  and petiolate +
not +  and connate +
Queria canadensis +
often +  and needlelike +
blotched +  and dotted +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
elliptic +  and obovate +
succulent +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
reduced +
cylindric +
Smooth-forked nailwort +  and forked-chickweed +
dish--shaped +
expanded +
Ont. +, Ala. +, Ark. +, Conn. +, Del. +, D.C. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Kans. +, Ky. +, La. +, Md. +, Mass. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, Mo. +, Nebr. +, N.H. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, N.C. +, Ohio +, Okla. +, Pa. +, R.I. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Vt. +, Va. +, W.Va. +  and Wis. +
0-1300 m +
peripheral +
connate +  and distinct +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
short-cylindric +
0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br /> (0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br />) +
sometimes +  and indehiscent +
stalked +  and simple +
Woodlands, thickets, fields, clearings, roadsides, waste places +
straight +
rounded-triangular +
tapering +  and cup-shaped +
sessile +  and petiolate +
adjacent +  and opposite +
connate +
all +  and distalmost +
white +  and translucent +
fimbriate +  and entire +
0.03mm +  and 0.1mm +
ovate +  and oblong +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
triangular +
0.007 cm0.07 mm <br />7.0e-5 m <br /> (0.015 cm0.15 mm <br />1.5e-4 m <br />) +
swollen +
3 +  and 5 +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +
fugacious +
4 +  and 5 +
Flowering spring–fall. +
Class-Book Bot. ed. s.n.(b), +
compressed +, subglobose +  and ellipsoid +
greenish +  and brownish +
persistent +
subulate;linear-oblong lanceolate spatulate or ovate +
0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
subulate +  and narrowly triangular filiform or oblong +
terete;angular +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
subterminal +
[50 +  and 2 +
papillate +
silvery +  and white +
subulate +  and lanceolate +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
connate +  and distinct +
subcapitate +  and filiform +
0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br />) +
Anychia canadensis +
Paronychia canadensis +
Paronychia +
species +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br />) +
divided +
ovoid +  and globose +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (?) +
membranous +
8 (?) +  and 10 (?) +
not rhizomatous +  and taprooted +
pubescence of simple hairs or stalked glands +  and glabrous +
9 +, 8 +  and 7 +