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Your search found 49 taxa.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Scleranthus annuus
Cymes congested, flowers numerous. Calyx tube coarsely ribbed, hardened, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Paronychia argyrocoma
Flowers mostly hidden by conspicuous silvery bracts; sepals white on margins, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Anychia canadensis
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)
Paronychia dichotoma
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Stipulicida setacea var. setacea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Alsine aquatica
LESS THAN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Alsine media
Three stigmas, red anthers, and 5 two-lobed petals (looking like 10 petals), per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Alsine pubera
Apparently 10 petals, but actually 5 petals deeply split, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cerastium vulgatum
Flowers 1/4" wide, the petals cleft and about equaling the sepals, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Petals oblanceolate, 3-5 mm, rarely absent, apex deeply bifid, per Flora of North America.
GREATER THAN
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Cerastium brachypetalum ssp. brachypetalum
Pedicels erect or ascending, 6-15 mm, shaggy. Sepals densely pubescent, per Flora of North America.
GREATER THAN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cerastium longepedunculatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sagina decumbens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sabulina caroliniana
Each flowering stem seemingly terminated by a small white 1/2" flower, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Arenaria serpyllifolia var. serpyllifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Arenaria serpyllifolia
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Arenaria serpyllifolia ssp. leptoclados
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Arenaria leptoclados
GREATER THAN
PLANTS National Database
Arenaria lanuginosa ssp. lanuginosa var. longipedunculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sabulina brevifolia
GREATER THAN
Minuartia alabamensis
Pedicels and sepals glabrous, petals 1-7mm long, per Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sabulina groenlandica
Flowers with 5 separate petals, each slightly notched at tip, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Arenaria glabra
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sabulina glabra
Larger sepals & larger pleated petals than A. uniflora or alabamensis, per Guide to the Plants of Granite Outcrops.
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sabulina uniflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Arenaria patula var. patula
LESS THAN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sabulina patula
Five notched petals, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
Petals rose-pink copiously dotted with white, a few teeth on petal margins, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Five petals, each with 2 narrow, 2-4mm, coronal appendages, per Flora of North America.
Petals are bilobed and open in the evening, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
GREATER THAN
Flora of North America
Silene flos-cuculi ssp. flos-cuculi
Petals narrowly wedge-shaped, indented at the summit, and somewhat reflexed, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Clearly 5-parted flowers with fimbriate petals 10-20mm long, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition.
Sessile flowers borne on a one-sided raceme-like inflorescence, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
GREATER THAN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Silene latifolia
Inflated calyx sac is veined and papery and looks like a balloon or melon, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
The pink or white corolla opens only briefly in full sun, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Flowers up to 2" across, w deeply notched petals [vs. S. regia, not notched], per Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition.
Petals usually entire, sometimes slightly notched (vs. S virginica notched, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
LESS THAN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Silene virginica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Silene caroliniana ssp. caroliniana
Petal limbs white to pink, shallowly lobed or irregularly crenate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of West Virginia (Strausbaugh & Core, 1978)
Silene pensylvanica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Infraspecific classification in the Carolina flora (Wilbur, 1970)
Silene caroliniana ssp. pensylvanica var. pensylvanica
The inflorescence is very sticky and crowded w pale or deep pink flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Petals not merely fringed but very deeply cleft into linear segments, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Silene baldwinii
The intricately fringed petals render this plant unmistakable, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
LESS THAN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Drymaria cordata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Gypsophila paniculata
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