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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Paronychia jamesii
|accepted_authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. N. Amer.
|place=1: 170. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|common_names=James’ nailwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paronychia jamesii var. hirsuta
|authority=Chaudhri
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paronychia jamesii var. parviflora
|authority=Chaudhri
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paronychia jamesii var. praelongifolia
|authority=Correll
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia jamesii
|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 jamesii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 32, 36
|treatment_page=page 39
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; caudex branched, woody. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, much-branched, 10–35 cm, scabrous, puberulent to pubescent, sometimes glabrous with age. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules lanceolate, 5–15 mm, apex acuminate, entire; blade linear, 7–25(–34) × 0.5–1 mm, leathery, apex obtuse to subacute or submucronate, pubescent to puberulent. <b>Cymes</b> terminal, 20–70-flowered, open, clusters 1–2 cm wide. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, short-campanulate, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx widening somewhat distally, 1.8–2.8 mm, puberulent, glabrous to hirtellous distally; sepals green to red-brown, veins absent, oblong, 1.3–1.8 mm, leathery to rigid, margins whitish to translucent, 0.05–0.1 mm wide, scarious, apex terminated by awn, broadly rounded, awn widely divergent, 0.4–0.8 mm, conic in proximal 1/2–2/3 with yellowish, scabrous spine; staminodes filiform, 0.6–1 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 1/3–1/6, 0.8–1.2 mm. <b>Utricles</b> ellipsoid-ovoid, 0.8–1 mm, smooth, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Limestone rocky ledges, slopes, hilltops, grasslands
|elevation=500-2500 m
|distribution=Colo.;Kans.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|discussion=<p>We agree with B. L. Turner (1983b) in not adopting the four varieties of <i>Paronychia jamesii</i> that Chaudhri recognized.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Paronychia jamesii
|author=
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Paronychia jamesii var. hirsuta;Paronychia jamesii var. parviflora;Paronychia jamesii var. praelongifolia
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Limestone rocky ledges, slopes, hilltops, grasslands
|elevation=500-2500 m
|distribution=Colo.;Kans.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1838
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_73.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia jamesii
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