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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Paronychia monticola
|accepted_authority=Cory
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=46: 279. 1944
|year=1944
}}
|common_names=Livermore nailwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paronychia nudata
|authority=Correll
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia monticola
|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 monticola]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 32
|treatment_page=page 40
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>biennial but usually perennial; taproot stout. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, much-branched throughout, 10–30 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules lanceolate, 2–5 mm, apex acuminate to long-acuminate, entire; blade linear, 7–15(–19) × 0.4–0.8(–1) mm, leathery, apex subobtuse or minutely cuspidate, glabrous. <b>Cymes</b> terminating branchlets, 10–40+-flowered, repeatedly forked and diffuse, clusters 1–3 cm wide. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, ± short-campanulate, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx constricted proximally, 2.3–3.2 mm, hirtellous, glabrous distally; sepals red-brown, veins absent to obscure, narrowly oblong, 1.8–2.3 mm, leathery to rigid, margins translucent, 0.05–0.1 mm wide, scarious, apex terminated by awn, hood conspicuously rounded, awn divergently spreading, 1–1.5(–2) mm, ± broadly conic in proximal 1/3 with yellowish, glabrous spine; staminodes filiform, 0.7–0.9 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 1/5, 0.6–1.3 mm. <b>Utricles</b> ovoid, 1.2–1.5 mm, minutely papillose distally.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Mountain tops, rocky slopes and ledges, gravel beds of mountain streams
|elevation=ca 1200 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila).
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name=Paronychia monticola
|author=
|authority=Cory
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Paronychia nudata
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Mountain tops, rocky slopes and ledges, gravel beds of mountain streams
|elevation=ca 1200 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila).
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1944
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia monticola
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