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|accepted_name=Frankenia pulverulenta
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 332. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=European sea-heath;wisp-weed
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Frankeniaceae;Frankenia;Frankenia pulverulenta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Frankeniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Frankenia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Frankenia pulverulenta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 410
|treatment_page=page 411
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, often prostrate, to 1.5(–3) dm; branches glabrous or puberulous, hairs erect, usually curved, sometimes straight. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 0.8–2 mm, markedly tapering toward blade, apex narrower than base of blade; blade gray-green, usually narrowly obovate or obovate to elliptic or oblong-elliptic, sometimes orbiculate, flat, 2–7 × 1–3 mm, margins slightly to loosely revolute, abaxial surface mostly exposed, adaxial surface usually glabrous, sometimes glabrate. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually compound, sometimes simple dichasia, sometimes solitary flowers. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 2.5–4.5 mm, lobes 5, 0.5–1 mm; petals 5, pink to violet, oblong-oblanceolate to spatulate, 2.5–5.2 mm; stamens 6, included to ± exserted, 1.7–3.5 mm; anthers yellow; style included to ± exserted, 3-branched; ovary 3-carpellate; ovules 25–60, attached along sutures, funiculi erect. <b>Seeds</b> 20–60 per capsule, oblong-ellipsoid, 0.4–0.7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Ballast, moist, saline soil
|elevation=0–1300 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mass.;N.J.;Oreg.;Utah;Eurasia;Africa;introduced also in South America and Australia.
|discussion=<p>In the United States, <i>Frankenia pulverulenta</i> is introduced and has been rarely collected on the east and west coasts and near Salt Lake City, Utah, where recent attempts to relocate it were unsuccessful (N. H. Holmgren 2005c).</p>
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name=Frankenia pulverulenta
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Frankeniaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Ballast, moist, saline soil
|elevation=0–1300 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mass.;N.J.;Oreg.;Utah;Eurasia;Africa;introduced also in South America and Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_780.xml
|genus=Frankenia
|species=Frankenia pulverulenta
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