View source for Paronychia fastigiata

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Paronychia fastigiata
|accepted_authority=(Rafinesque) Fernald
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=38: 421. 1936
|year=1936
}}
|common_names=Hairy forked nailwort;forked-chickweed
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Anychia fastigiata
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=species
|publication_title=Atlantic J.
|publication_place=1: 16. 1832
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia fastigiata
|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 fastigiata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 31, 38
|treatment_page=page 37
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; taproot filiform to slender. <b>Stems</b> erect, usually much-branched, 4–30 cm, retrorsely to spreading-pubescent mostly on 1 side. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules subulate to lanceolate, 0.5–4.5 mm, apex acuminate, sometimes fimbriate; blade usually dotted or blotched, oblanceolate to elliptic or obovate, 2–25 × 0.5–7(–10) mm, herbaceous to leathery, apex subobtuse to acute or cuspidate, glabrous or occasionally with very few scattered trichomes along midrib. <b>Cymes</b> terminal, 25–70+-flowered, branched, loose to compact, forming clusters 3–10 mm wide. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, short-cylindric, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx ± cylindric, 1.1–1.6 mm, glabrous or with few scattered hairs; sepals greenish to brownish, veins absent, linear-oblong, 1–1.2 mm, leathery to rigid, margins white to translucent, 0.05–0.1 mm wide, scarious, apex terminated by mucro, hood narrowly rounded, mucro short-conic, 0.05–0.3 mm, ± minutely scabrous; staminodes absent; styles 2, 0.07–0.6(–0.7) mm. <b>Utricles</b> obovoid to obconic, 0.7–1 mm, minutely papillate. <b>2n</b> = 32, 36.</span><!--

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|distribution=e North America.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The varieties here recognized are sympatric over at least portions of their ranges. A detailed study on infraspecific variation within <i>Paronychia fastigiata</i> is warranted.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Styles 0.3-0.6(-0.7) mm, often bent or contorted
|[[Paronychia fastigiata var. pumila|Paronychia fastigiata var. pumila]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Styles 0.07-0.25(-0.3) mm, straight
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Sepal cusps 0.2-0.3 mm
|[[Paronychia fastigiata var. nuttallii|Paronychia fastigiata var. nuttallii]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Sepal cusps 0.05-0.15 mm
|[[Paronychia fastigiata var. fastigiata|Paronychia fastigiata var. fastigiata]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Paronychia fastigiata
|authority=(Rafinesque) Fernald
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Anychia fastigiata
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|distribution=e North America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1936
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_67.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia fastigiata
}}<!--

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