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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Paronychia virginica
|accepted_authority=Sprengel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Veg.
|place=1: 822. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|common_names=Yellow nailwort;Appalachian nailwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paronychia parksii
|authority=Cory
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paronychia scoparia
|authority=Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paronychia virginica var. parksii
|authority=(Cory) Chaudhri
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paronychia virginica var. scoparia
|authority=(Small) Cory
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia virginica
|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 virginica]]</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; caudex branched, woody. <b>Stems</b> procumbent, branched from base, hirtellose; flowering stems 7–45 cm; sterile stems 3–10 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules narrowly lanceolate, 6–13 mm, apex acuminate, often deeply cleft; blade linear, 10–30 × 0.4–1 mm, leathery, apex short-spinose, minutely hirtellous to puberulent. <b>Cymes</b> terminal, 3–10+-flowered, somewhat open to compact, often forming clusters 6–30 mm wide. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, narrowly ovoid, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx tapering gradually distally, 2.8–5.1 mm, glabrous to puberulent, especially proximally; sepals brown to yellowish, midrib and lateral pair of veins prominent, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 2–2.9 mm, leathery to rigid, margins whitish, 0.1–0.2 mm wide, papery, apex terminated by awn, hood rounded-triangular, awn curved outward, green to red-brown, ± conic, 0.4–1.1 mm, scabrous, distinct spine absent; staminodes filiform, 0.8–1 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 1/5, 1.2–2 mm. <b>Utricles</b> ovoid to obovoid, 1.8–2 mm, smooth, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=On or among rocks
|elevation=700-1300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;D.C.;Md.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>Cory established <i></i></i>var.<i><i> scoparia</i> for the western populations to reflect the disjunct distribution. <i>Paronychia</i> dichotoma (Linnaeus) Nuttall (1818), sometimes applied to this species, is a later homonym of P. dichotoma de Candolle (1805); see E. L. Core (1940).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Paronychia virginica
|author=
|authority=Sprengel
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Paronychia parksii;Paronychia scoparia;Paronychia virginica var. parksii;Paronychia virginica var. scoparia
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=On or among rocks
|elevation=700-1300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;D.C.;Md.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Veg.
|publication year=1824
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_83.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia virginica
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