Polycarpon depressumNutt. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Arversia frankenoides
Tillaea unrecorded
Polycarpon depressum
Polycarpon frankenioides
Common name
California manyseed, Flora of North America Vol. 5
Flora
Entry for Polycarpon depressum Nuttall [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 5,
Names
Polycarpon depressumNuttall [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE], in J. Torrey and A. Gray,SFl. N. Amer., 1: 174. 1838
Treatment Author(s)
John W. Thieret
Richard K. Rabeler
Information
Stems prostrate, 1–6 cm. Leaves opposite, not whorled; stipules 0.4–1.2 mm; blade spatulate to obovate or oblanceolate, 3–9 mm. Inflorescence bracts mostly present. Flowers: sepals flat or sometimes barely keeled, 1–1.5 mm; petals linear to elliptic, 0.8–1 mm, 1/2 times as long as sepals; stamens 3–5. Capsules not clasped by calyx, spherical, valve margins straight or only slightly rolled inward after dehiscence. Seeds obliquely triangular, 0.4–0.5 mm, finely granular.