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|accepted_name=Mentzelia floridana
|accepted_authority=Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. N. Amer.
|place=1: 533. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|common_names=Florida stickleaf;poorman’s patches
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Loasaceae;Mentzelia;Mentzelia sect. Mentzelia;Mentzelia floridana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Loasaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mentzelia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Mentzelia sect. Mentzelia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mentzelia floridana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 527, 529
|treatment_page=page 528
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, with caudices. <b>Stems</b> erect, becoming decumbent, to 60 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole to 25 mm; blade usually hastate or ovate, distal sometimes elliptic, basally lobed or unlobed, to 8.4 × 5.5 cm, base usually truncate, sometimes obtusely cuneate, margins usually serrate or dentate to crenate, sometimes entire, apex acute. <b>Pedicels</b> (fruiting) 0.6–4 × less than 1 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: petals creamy yellow to orange, 6.5–13 × 3.5–7 mm, apex cuspidate, hairy on apex; stamens 20–35, 6–11 mm, filaments heteromorphic, 5 outermost narrowly spatulate, inner filiform; style 8–10 mm. <b>Capsules</b> usually lingulate to funnelform, rarely ovoid, 10–18 × 4–5.8 mm, base rounded or cuneate, capsule and pedicel well-differentiated. <b>Seeds</b> (4–)6–8 per capsule, pyriform, without transverse folds. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Sep–May.
|habitat=Beaches, dunes, sand flats along ocean and rivers, coastal hammocks, disturbed areas, roadsides, shell mounds.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Bahamas).
|discussion=<p><i>Mentzelia floridana</i>, which is widespread in peninsular Florida, belongs to a clade restricted to the Gulf coastal and Caribbean region; it is most closely related to <i>M. gracilis</i> Urban & Gilg of Mexico and to <i>M. lindheimeri</i> of Texas.</p>
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name=Mentzelia floridana
|author=
|authority=Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Loasaceae
|phenology=Flowering Sep–May.
|habitat=Beaches, dunes, sand flats along ocean and rivers, coastal hammocks, disturbed areas, roadsides, shell mounds.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Bahamas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1840
|special status=
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|genus=Mentzelia
|section=Mentzelia sect. Mentzelia
|species=Mentzelia floridana
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