Moehringia macrophylla

(Hooker) Fenzl

Vers. Darstell. Alsin., 18, 38. 1833.

Common names: Bigleaf sandwort moehringie ou sabline à grandes feuilles
Basionym: Arenaria macrophylla Hooker Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 102, plate 37. 1831
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 71.

Plants perennial. Rhizomes forming extensive network. Stems ascending to erect, simple or branched, ± angled or grooved, 2–18 cm, hairs minute, spreading, peglike. Leaves sessile or subsessile; petiole 0.1–1 mm; blade 1–3-veined, lanceolate to elliptic, (8–)15–50(–70) × 2–9 mm, margins smooth to minutely granular, often ciliate in proximal 1/2, apex acute. Inflorescences 1–5-flowered; bracts 1–4 mm, margins broadly scarious. Pedicels ascending to erect, sometimes divergent in fruit, 2–15 mm. Flowers: sepals 5, midrib ± keeled, ovate, herbaceous portion lanceolate, (2.8–)3–6 mm, apex acute to acuminate; petals 5, 2–6 mm, 3/4–11/2 times as long as sepals. Capsules ovoid, 5 mm, ± equaling sepals. Seeds ovoid, 1.5–2.2 mm, tuberculate; tubercles minute, low, rounded. 2n = 48.


Phenology: Flowering late spring–summer.
Habitat: Moist, shaded slopes, rocky ridges, ultramafic outcrops and summits, shores
Elevation: 200-3400 m.

Distribution

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B.C., Man., Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.), N.W.T., Ont., Que., Sask., Calif., Colo., Conn., Idaho, Mass., Mich., Mont., N.Mex., Oreg., Utah, Vt., Wash., Wis., Asia.

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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Richard K. Rabeler +  and Ronald L. Hartman +
(Hooker) Fenzl +
Arenaria macrophylla +
Bigleaf sandwort +  and moehringie ou sabline à grandes feuilles +
B.C. +, Man. +, Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.) +, N.W.T. +, Ont. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Calif. +, Colo. +, Conn. +, Idaho +, Mass. +, Mich. +, Mont. +, N.Mex. +, Oreg. +, Utah +, Vt. +, Wash. +, Wis. +  and Asia. +
200-3400 m. +
Moist, shaded slopes, rocky ridges, ultramafic outcrops and summits, shores +
Flowering late spring–summer. +
Vers. Darstell. Alsin., +
Moehringia macrophylla +
Moehringia +
species +