Biology:Paronychia ahartii
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| Species: | P. ahartii
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| Paronychia ahartii Ertter
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Paronychia ahartii is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name Ahart's nailwort. It is endemic to California , where it is known from three counties at the northern edge of the Sacramento Valley where it rises into the southern slopes of the Cascade Range. It is a plant of moist, rocky habitat, such as vernal pools. This is a petite plant producing a nearly invisible stem from a threadlike taproot. The plant is only about a centimeter wide and somewhat spherical in shape. It is a tiny patch of bristle-tipped green leaves a few millimeters in length with oval-shaped stipules. The single flower occurring in each leaf axil has no petals but white, rough-textured, awn-tipped sepals clustered around the leaves.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q7139431 entry
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