View source for Paronychia americana

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|accepted_name=Paronychia americana
|accepted_authority=(Nuttall) Fenzl ex Walpers
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Repert. Bot. Syst.
|place=1: 262. 1842
|year=1842
}}
|common_names=American nailwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Herniaria americana
|authority=Nuttall
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paronychia americana subsp. pauciflora
|authority=(Small) Chaudhri
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Siphonychia americana
|authority=Small
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Siphonychia pauciflora
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia americana
|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 americana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 30, 31
|treatment_page=page 33
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or biennial; taproot slender. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending to prostrate, branched, 5–60 cm, often retrorsely pubescent on 1 side. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules ovate-lanceolate, 1.5–7 mm, apex acuminate, fimbriate; blade spatulate to oblanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 3–20 × 1–4 mm, herbaceous, apex acute to obtuse or rounded, glabrous to scaberulous. <b>Cymes</b> terminal, 9–25-flowered, ± compact, forming spheroid glomerules 2–6 mm wide. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, ± short-cylindric, with slightly enlarged hypanthium and calyx widening somewhat distally, 1–1.8 mm, sparsely to moderately pubescent proximally with hooked to straight hairs; sepals red-brown (sometimes finely striped or mottled), white distally, midrib obscure, obovate, 0.4–0.8 mm, leathery to rigid, margins white, 0.03–0.1 mm wide, thinly herbaceous, apex broadly rounded, hood broadly rounded, awn or mucro usually absent or minute; staminodes narrowly triangular, 0.3–0.4 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 1/6, 0.6–0.8 mm. <b>Utricles</b> ovoid to ellipsoid, 0.6–0.8 mm, smooth, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year round.
|habitat=Dunes, pine/oak woodland, fields, clearings, roadsides
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;S.C.
|discussion=<p>Plants of Paronychia americana with fewer flowers in lax cymes from Florida and Georgia were named subsp. pauciflora, a distinction that we do not feel is worth recognition.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Paronychia americana
|author=
|authority=(Nuttall) Fenzl ex Walpers
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Paronychia americana subsp. pauciflora;Siphonychia americana;Siphonychia pauciflora
|basionyms=Herniaria americana
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering year round.
|habitat=Dunes, pine/oak woodland, fields, clearings, roadsides
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Repert. Bot. Syst.
|publication year=1842
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_54.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia americana
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