View source for Paronychia sessiliflora

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|accepted_name=Paronychia sessiliflora
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=1: 160. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|common_names=Creeping nailwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia sessiliflora
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Paronychia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Paronychia sessiliflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 32
|treatment_page=page 42
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, densely cespitose and mat-forming; caudex branched, woody. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, branched proximally, 5–25 cm, hirtellous. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules lanceolate to subulate, 2–3 mm, apex long-acuminate, often deeply cleft; blade linear-subulate, 4–7.5 × 0.5–0.8 mm, leathery, apex acute or shortly cuspidate-mucronate, very finely puberulent to glabrous. <b>Cymes</b> terminal, 3–6-flowered, congested, or flowers solitary. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, ± ovoid, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx narrowing distally, 3.6–5 mm, moderately pubescent with silky to stiff, antrorse to somewhat spreading hairs; sepals green to red-brown, midrib and lateral pair of veins prominent, lanceolate-oblong, 1.5–2 mm, leathery, margins whitish to translucent, 0.1–0.2 mm wide, scarious, apex terminated by awn, hood ± obscure, narrowly rounded, awn erect to somewhat spreading, 1–1.5(–2) mm, narrowly conic in proximal 1/2 with white, scabrous spine; staminodes filiform, 0.7–1 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 1/5, 1.4–1.5 mm. <b>Utricles</b> ovoid-oblong, 1.3–1.4 mm, densely pubescent in distal 1/2.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Dry, stony hillsides, summits, and sandstone mesas
|elevation=700-3100 m
|distribution=Alta.;Sask.;Colo.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Okla.;Tex.;Utah;Wyo.
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name=Paronychia sessiliflora
|author=
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Dry, stony hillsides, summits, and sandstone mesas
|elevation=700-3100 m
|distribution=Alta.;Sask.;Colo.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Okla.;Tex.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia sessiliflora
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