View source for Paronychia pulvinata

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|accepted_name=Paronychia pulvinata
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
|place=15: 58. 1864
|year=1864
}}
|common_names=Rocky Mountain nailwort
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paronychia pulvinata var. longiaristata
|authority=Chaudhri
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia pulvinata
|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 pulvinata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 32, 34
|treatment_page=page 40
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, densely cespitose, cushion-forming; caudex much-branched, woody. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, much-branched, 5–10 cm, puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules ovate, 3–6 mm, apex subobtuse, entire; blade narrowly elliptic-oblong or oblong to narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, 2–5 × 0.2–1.8(–2) mm, fleshy, apex obtuse to subacute, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> mostly solitary at end of shoots, almost concealed by leaves. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, elliptic-oblong, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx straight to tapering distally, 2.5–2.8 mm, densely appressed-puberulent, sparsely so distally; sepals whitish to green, veins absent, narrowly oblong to ovate-oblong, 1.5–1.7 mm, papery to herbaceous, margins white, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, papery, apex with subterminal awn, hood ascending as continuation of sepal, broadly rounded to notched, awn erect, white, 0.3–0.6(–1) mm, ± glabrous spine; staminodes filiform, 0.7–0.9 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 1/3, 0.8–1 mm. <b>Utricles</b> ovoid, 1.3–1.5 mm, smooth, glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Rocky slopes and summit screes in alpine regions
|elevation=3300-4200 m
|distribution=Colo.;Utah;Wyo.
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name=Paronychia pulvinata
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Paronychia pulvinata var. longiaristata
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Rocky slopes and summit screes in alpine regions
|elevation=3300-4200 m
|distribution=Colo.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
|publication year=1864
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia pulvinata
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