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|accepted_name=Moenchia
|accepted_authority=Ehrhart
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Neues Mag. Aerzte
|place=5: 203. 1783
|year=1783
}}
|common_names=Upright chickweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Moenchia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Moenchia]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Conrad Moench, 1744–1805, professor at Marburg, Germany
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 4, 6, 8
|treatment_page=page 93
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual. <b>Taproots</b> slender. <b>Stems</b> ascending to erect, simple or sometimes branched proximally, terete. <b>Leaves</b>: cauline leaves connate proximally, sessile or sometimes petiolate (basal leaves); blade 1-veined, linear to linear-oblanceolate, not succulent, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, 1–3-flowered, spreading cymes or flowers solitary; bracts paired, foliaceous, those of axillary flowers with scarious margins. <b>Pedicels</b> erect. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth and androecium hypogynous; sepals 4, distinct, green, lanceolate, 3.8–7 mm, herbaceous, margins white or silvery, scarious, apex acute; petals 4 or rarely absent, white, claw absent, blade apex entire; nectaries at base of filaments opposite sepals; stamens 4, inserted at base of ovary; filaments distinct nearly to base; staminodes absent; styles 4, filiform, 0.7–1 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 4, linear along adaxial surface of styles, minutely papillate (50×). <b>Capsules</b> cylindric, opening by 8 revolute teeth, shorter than or equaling sepals; carpophore absent. <b>Seeds</b> 35–55, brown, reniform with deep abaxial groove, laterally compressed, papillate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent. <b>x</b> = 19.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe (Mediterranean region);introduced in Africa (Republic of South Africa);Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=ketzner1996a
|text=Ketzner, D. M. 1996. Crepis pulchra (Asteraceae) and Moenchia erecta (Caryophyllaceae) in Illinois. Trans. Illinois State Acad. Sci. 89: 21–23.
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|id=rabeler1991a
|text=Rabeler, R. K. 1991. Moenchia erecta (Caryophyllaceae) in eastern North America. Castanea 56: 150–151.
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name=Moenchia
|author=Richard K. Rabeler;Ronald L. Hartman
|authority=Ehrhart
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Europe (Mediterranean region);introduced in Africa (Republic of South Africa);Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=ketzner1996a;rabeler1991a
|publication title=Neues Mag. Aerzte
|publication year=1783
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_194.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Moenchia
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