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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Paronychia virginica   FAMILY Caryophyllaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Paronychia virginica   FAMILY Caryophyllaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Paronychia virginica

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 5 (2005)

Paronychia virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Paronychia virginica var. virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Paronychia virginica ssp. virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Paronychia dichotoma

 

COMMON NAME:
Yellow Nailwort, Virginia Whitlow-wort


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image of Paronychia virginica, Yellow Nailwort, Virginia Whitlow-wort

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_padi13_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Paronychia virginica   FAMILY Caryophyllaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Paronychia virginica   FAMILY Caryophyllaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Paronychia virginica

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 5
Paronychia virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Paronychia virginica var. virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Paronychia virginica ssp. virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Paronychia dichotoma

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4217

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Shale barrens, rocky riversides, calcareous rock outcrops and talus, serpentine outcrops, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia & north of the Carolinas

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Margins entire
Leaves are subtended by stipules.

FLOWER:
Summer
Yellow
Radially symmetrical
5 spine-tipped sepals
Petals absent
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer

 

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