View source for Spergularia platensis var. platensis

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|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae;Spergularia;Spergularia platensis;Spergularia platensis var. platensis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Spergularia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Spergularia platensis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Spergularia platensis var. platensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
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|treatment_page=page 23
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, delicate, 6–18 cm, glabrous. <b>Taproots</b> filiform. <b>Stems</b> erect to diffusely spreading, much-branched proximally and distally; main stem 0.3–1 mm diam. proximally. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules inconspicuous, dull white, broadly triangular, 1.5–3.5 mm, apex acute to acuminate; blade filiform to linear, 0.5–3 cm, somewhat fleshy, apex acute to spine-tipped; axillary leaf clusters absent. <b>Cymes</b> branching symmetrically or mostly to 1 side, usually 4–7+-compound. <b>Pedicels</b> erect to spreading in fruit. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals connate 0.1–0.3 mm proximally, lobes weakly 1-veined, ovate to broadly elliptic, 0.9–1.6 mm, to 2 mm in fruit, margins 0.1–0.3 mm wide, apex obtuse to broadly rounded; petals white, elliptic, 0.6–0.8 times as long as sepals; stamens 3–5; styles 0.3–0.4 mm. <b>Capsules</b> greenish to tan, 1.4–2.6 mm, 1.3–1.5 times as long as sepals. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown or reddish brown to black, submarginal groove usually absent, pyriform, plump, 0.3–0.4 mm, shiny, with low, elongate tubercles, gland-tipped papillae often present; wing absent.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early spring.
|habitat=Dried or brackish mud flats with adobe mesas
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Tex.;Mexico (Baja California);probably South America (Argentina).
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Although <i></i>var.<i> platensis</i> has been known from North America since at least the 1880s, R. P. Rossbach (1940) thought it likely that the taxon was introduced here, and that the only native occurrences are in Argentina.</p>
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|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering early spring.
|habitat=Dried or brackish mud flats with adobe mesas
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Tex.;Mexico (Baja California);probably South America (Argentina).
|introduced=true
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae
|genus=Spergularia
|species=Spergularia platensis
|variety=Spergularia platensis var. platensis
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