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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Mecardonia procumbens
|accepted_authority=(Miller) Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. S.E. U.S.,
|place=1065, 1338. 1903
|year=1903
}}
|common_names=Baby jump-up
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Erinus procumbens
|authority=Miller
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bacopa procumbens
|authority=(Miller) Greenman
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mecardonia tenuis
|authority=Small
}}
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Mecardonia;Mecardonia procumbens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Plantaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mecardonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mecardonia procumbens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 273
|treatment_page=page 275
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>spreading, prostrate, or ascending, 10–60 cm, glandular. <b>Leaves</b> glandular; blade 10–25 × 6–12 mm, 4–8 times bracts, margins sharply serrate. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending, 7–25 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx lobes equal; corolla lemon yellow with reddish veins in throat, abaxial lip prominent, adaxial lobes connate nearly to apices; stamens medially adnate to corolla. <b>Capsules</b> 4–5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 60–80, brown, radial walls of reticulum mamillate. <b>2n</b> = 22, 44.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Oct.
|habitat=Wetlands, edges of streams, springs and seeps, deserts in upland washes and canyons with moisture.
|elevation=90–1600 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ariz.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;introduced in Asia (India;Sri Lanka);Africa (Cameroon;Sierra Leone);Australia.
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name=Mecardonia procumbens
|author=
|authority=(Miller) Small
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Bacopa procumbens;Mecardonia tenuis
|basionyms=Erinus procumbens
|family=Plantaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Oct.
|habitat=Wetlands, edges of streams, springs and seeps, deserts in upland washes and canyons with moisture.
|elevation=90–1600 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ariz.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;introduced in Asia (India;Sri Lanka);Africa (Cameroon;Sierra Leone);Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. S.E. U.S.,
|publication year=1903
|special status=
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|genus=Mecardonia
|species=Mecardonia procumbens
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