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Gomphrena vermicularis

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Name

Identification
Gomphrena vermicularis L. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Blutaparon vermiculare (L.) Mears [family AMARANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Thesium vermicularis
  • Blutaparon vermiculare
  • Thesium not on sheet
  • Iresine vermicularis
  • Gomphrena vermicularis
  • Illecebrum vermiculatum
  • Gomphrena polygonoides
  • Philoxerus vermicularis
Common name
  • Silverweed, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • saltweed, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • samphire, Flora of North America Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Blutaparon vermiculare (Linnaeus) Mears [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 4,
Names
Blutaparon vermiculare (Linnaeus) Mears [family AMARANTHACEAE], Taxon, 31: 113. 1982
Gomphrena vermicularis Linnaeus [family AMARANTHACEAE], Sp. Pl., 1: 224. 1753
Philoxerus vermicularis (Linnaeus)R Brown ex Smith [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Treatment Author(s)
Steven E. Clemants
Information
Plants perennial or occasionally annual, 3–20 dm. Stems mostly prostrate with ascending branches, much-branched, gla-brous. Leaf blades linear to linear lanceolate or oblanceolate, 15–55 × 2–12 mm. Inflorescences: heads white or pinkish (drying silvery white), globose or cylindric, 7–30 × 7–10 mm; bracteoles slightly shorter than flowers. Flowers very short-pedicellate; tepals connate basally, white, oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, thickened basally, 3–5 mm, chartaceous, apex of outer tepals obtuse, apex of inner tepals acute, spinose-tipped, densely villose. Utricles indehiscent or splitting irregularly, included in tepals, 1.3 mm. Seeds 0.8–1 mm.
Altitude range
0–10 m;
Distribution
MexicoCentral America.USA Fla.USA La.USA Tex.

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