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|accepted_name=Arenaria benthamii
|accepted_authority=Fenzl ex Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. N. Amer.
|place=1: 675. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|common_names=Hilly sandwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Arenaria;Arenaria benthamii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Arenaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Arenaria benthamii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 51, 54
|treatment_page=page 52
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Taproots</b> filiform. <b>Stems</b> 1–40+, erect to ascending, branching, green, 10–30(–50) cm; internodes ± terete, mostly 1–10 times as long as leaves, dull, retrosely puberulent in 2 lines. <b>Leaves</b> usually connate proximally, with scarious sheath 0.2–0.4 mm, petiolate (proximal leaves) or sessile; petiole 2–4 mm; blade 1-veined, vein ± weak abaxially, ovate (petiolate blades) or elliptic-lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5–15(–20) × 2–4 mm, herbaceous, margins undulate, scarious, shiny, sparsely ciliate especially proximally, apex acute to apiculate or cuspidate, often pustulate, glabrous; axillary leaf clusters absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, open, leafy, 3–50+-flowered cymes. <b>Pedicels</b> erect to reflexed in fruit, 10–40 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals green, 1-veined, vein obscure or prominent proximally, not keeled, elliptic to broadly ovate (herbaceous portion light green, ovate), 2–3.5 mm, to 4.5 mm in fruit, apex acute to acuminate, often pustulate, glabrous; petals elliptic, 1.5–3 mm, 1/2–3/4 times as long as sepals, apex obtuse. <b>Capsules</b> loosely to tightly enclosed by calyx, ovoid, 3–4 mm, 11/5–2 times as long as sepals. <b>Seeds</b> 20–30, ashy brown, broadly reniform, compressed, 0.5–0.6 mm, dull, minutely or prominently rounded-tuberculate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring.
|habitat=Open woodlands, limestone slopes and outcrops
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=La.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León).
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name=Arenaria benthamii
|author=
|authority=Fenzl ex Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring.
|habitat=Open woodlands, limestone slopes and outcrops
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=La.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León).
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1840
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Arenaria
|species=Arenaria benthamii
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