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| Plant with swollen joints. Leaves opposite or whorled and simple often united at the base connected by the transverse line. Flowers with 4-5 petals (often notched) and 4-5 sepals often united at the base forming a tube. | |
| Flower Formula: Sepals 5 or (5); Petals 5[0] | Glossary |
| Genus (Click for Taxon List) |
WI Taxa (map link) |
Photo | Genus Traits | Google Searches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agrostemma
corn cockle |
1 |  |
Sepals joined into toothed or lobed tube. Calyx lobes much longer than the tube. Petals with no appendage. | Images Information |
| Arenaria
sandwort |
6 |  |
Sepals distinct. Petals mostly entire. Styles fewer than sepals. Flowers not in umbels. | Images Information |
| Cerastium
mouse-ear chickweed |
8 |  |
Sepals distinct. Petals deeply cut. Fruit cylindrical. | Images Information |
| Dianthus
pink |
5 |  |
Sepals joined into toothed or lobed tube. Styles 2. Calyx surrounded by 1-3 pairs of bracts. | Images Information |
| Gypsophila
baby's-breath |
5 |  |
Sepals joined into toothed or lobed tube. Styles 2. Flowers less than 1/2 inch. | Images Information |
| Herniaria
rupture-wort |
1 |  |
Leaves with small appendages at base united. Petals present. | Images Information |
| Holosteum
jagged chickweed |
1 |  |
Sepals distinct. Petals mostly entire, fringed at top. Styles fewer than sepals. Flowers in umbels. | Images Information |
| Lychnis
ragged-robin, catchfly |
4 |  |
Sepals joined into toothed or lobed tube. Calyx lobes much much shorter than the tube, not inflated nor glandular. Petals appendaged. | Images Information |
| Paronychia
chickweed, nail-wort, whitlow-wort |
4 |  |
Leaves with small appendages at base distinct. Petals present. | Images Information |
| Petrorhagia
saxifrage pink |
1 |  |
Sepals joined into toothed or lobed tube. Styles 2. Calyx surrounded by 1-3 pairs of bracts. | Images Information |
| Sagina
pearl-wort |
1 |  |
Sepals distinct. Petals mostly entire. Styles 4-5 or same as sepals. | Images Information |
| Saponaria
bouncing-bet, soapwort |
1 |  |
Sepals joined into toothed or lobed tube. Styles 2. Calyx tublar. | Images Information |
| Scleranthus
knawel, knotgrass |
2 |  |
Sepals distinct. No petals, 1-seeded fruit. | Images Information |
| Silene
catchfly, campion |
12 |  |
Sepals joined into toothed or lobed tube. Calyx lobes much much shorter than the tube, often inflated or glandular. Petals appendaged. | Images Information |
| Spergula
spurry |
1 |  |
Leaves with small appendages at base, whorled. Petals present. | Images Information |
| Spergularia
sand spurry |
2 |  |
Leaves with small appendages at base, opposite. Petals present. | Images Information |
| Stellaria
chickweed, starwort |
11 |  |
Sepals distinct. Petals deeply cut. Fruit oval or oblong. | Images Information |
| Vaccaria
cow-herb, soapwort |
1 |  |
Sepals joined into toothed or lobed tube. Styles 2. Calyx oval-shaped. | Images Information |