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Photographer: Dan Tenaglia
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Family Caryophyllaceae
Agrostemma githago L.
corn cockle
Agrostemma: from Latin for "field chaplet"
githago: old Latin name
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Introduced - adventive |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 2'-3' tall forb with thin hairs |
| Flower: | pink to reddish, 5-parted, 1"-1 1/2" wide, sepals much longer than the petals and forming a 10-ribbed tube, petal tips with a small notch; solitary, terminal, stalked flowers; blooms July-Sept. |
| Fruit: | capsule |
| Leaf: | opposite, untoothed, without stipules, long and narrow |
| Habitat: | dry; disturbed sites |
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