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|accepted_name=Hudsonia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|place=12, 2: 323, 327. 1767
|year=1767
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mant. Pl.
|place=1: 74. 1767
|year=1767
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cistaceae;Hudsonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cistaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hudsonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For William Hudson, 1730 – 1793 English botanist
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 387, 400
|treatment_page=page 398
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism width;whole_organism atypical some measurement;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism growth form"><b>Shrubs,</b> evergreen, sometimes forming clumps wider than high, 0.5–2 (–4) dm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf arrangement;leaf architecture"><b>Leaves </b>alternate, sessile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="blade architecture;blade shape;margin shape or vernation;surface pubescence;surface pubescence;hair architecture;hair arrangement or shape">blade 1-veined from base, acerose to subulate or scalelike, margins sometimes ± revolute, surfaces glabrescent or hairy, hairs usually simple, not stellate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="flower architecture or arrangement or growth form"><b>Inflorescences </b>solitary flowers.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="pedicel presence;pedicel presence"><b>Pedicels </b>present or absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="bract presence;bract presence;flower reproduction">bracts present or absent Flowers chasmogamous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="sepal duration;sepal life cycle;sepal quantity">sepals persistent or tardily falling, 5;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="petal quantity;petal coloration;petal coloration">petals 5, usually yellow, sometimes white;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="stamen quantity">stamens 8–30+;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="filament fusion;base fusion">filaments distinct or bases weakly connate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="carpel quantity">carpels 3;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="style quantity">styles 1;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="stigma quantity;stigma shape">stigmas 1, minutely 3-toothed.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="capsule architecture"><b>Capsules </b>3-valved.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>3–6 per capsule.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="seed quantity;x chromosome quantity">x = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Species of Hudsonia are wiry shrubs or shrublets with crowded, acerose to subulate, or scalelike, leaves and the aspect of diminutive gymnosperms or overgrown mosses; they sometimes form relatively extensive stands.</p>
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades mostly lanceolate-ovate, (scalelike), 1–2(–3+) mm; leaves usually appressed (to stems); pedicels 0–1(–5) mm; ovaries glabrous or glabrescent.
|[[Hudsonia tomentosa|Hudsonia tomentosa]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades acerose to subulate, 2–7 mm; leaves weakly spreading; pedicels mostly 4–10(–16) mm; ovaries usually hairy
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Sepal apices acute to acuminate; ovaries proximally glabrous or glabrescent, distally hairy.
|[[Hudsonia ericoides|Hudsonia ericoides]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Sepal apices acuminate to attenuate; ovaries hairy ± throughout.
|[[Hudsonia montana|Hudsonia montana]]
|}
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name=Hudsonia
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cistaceae
|distribution=North America
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Nat. ed.;Mant. Pl.
|publication year=1767;1767
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Hudsonia
|base fusion=connate
|blade architecture=1-veined
|blade shape=acerose;subulate or scalelike
|bract presence=absent;absent
|capsule architecture=3-valved
|carpel quantity=3
|filament fusion=distinct
|flower architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|flower reproduction=chasmogamous
|hair architecture=simple
|hair arrangement or shape=not stellate
|leaf architecture=sessile
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|margin shape or vernation=revolute
|pedicel presence=absent;absent
|petal coloration=white;yellow
|petal quantity=5
|seed quantity=3;6
|sepal duration=persistent
|sepal life cycle=falling
|sepal quantity=5
|stamen quantity=8;30
|stigma quantity=1
|stigma shape=3-toothed
|style quantity=1
|surface pubescence=hairy;glabrescent
|whole_organism atypical some measurement=2dm;4dm
|whole_organism duration=evergreen
|whole_organism growth form=shrub
|whole_organism some measurement=0.5dm;2dm
|whole_organism width=wider than high
|x chromosome quantity=10
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