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|accepted_name=Paronychia ahartii
|accepted_authority=Ertter
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Madroño
|place=32: 87, fig. 1. 1985
|year=1985
}}
|common_names=Ahart’s nailwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia ahartii
|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 ahartii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 32
|treatment_page=page 33
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; taproot filiform to stout. <b>Stems</b> erect, tightly branched, 0.5–1.2 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules broadly ovate, 3–6 mm, apex acute to acuminate, entire; blade linear to oblanceolate, 2.5–7.5 × 0.5–1.2 mm, leathery, apex spinulose, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: flowers axillary, solitary. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, cylindric, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx cylindric to somewhat tapering distally, 4.2–5 mm, moderately hairy in proximal 1/2 with hooked to coiled hairs; sepals green to tan, veins absent, lanceolate to elliptic, 3.5–4.5 mm, margins translucent, 0.7–1+ mm wide, scarious (resembling stipules), apex (of herbaceous midrib) terminated by awn, hood apparently consisting of prominent, erect, scarious extension of margins split at apex, awn ± spreading, 1.5–2 mm, oblong extension of midrib in proximal 1/4, with white, wavy, threadlike spine; staminodes filiform, ca. 1 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 3/4, ca. 0.5 mm. <b>Utricles</b> ovoid, ca. 1.3 mm, papillose distally.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Well-drained rocky outcrops, vernal pool edges, volcanic uplands
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Paronychia ahartii</i>, first collected in 1938, is known from three counties in north-central California. It most closely resembles P. arabica (Linnaeus) de Candolle, a species of northern African and Arabian deserts.</p>
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name=Paronychia ahartii
|authority=Ertter
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Well-drained rocky outcrops, vernal pool edges, volcanic uplands
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Madroño
|publication year=1985
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia ahartii
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