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Photographer: Kitty Kohout
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Family Caryophyllaceae
Scleranthus annuus L. subsp. annuus
annual knawel, German knotgrass
Scleranthus: from Greek scleros, "hard," and anthos, "flower," from the extremely hard hypanthium or calyx tube
annuus: Latin for "yearly" usually referring to a plant which lives only one season
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | spreading annual, to 6" tall, bushy, wiry forb; stems with many forks |
| Flower: | greenish, tiny, 5-parted, mostly stalkless, no petals, pointed sepals with thin whitish edges; inflorescence a tight, branched cluster; blooms June-Sept. |
| Leaf: | opposite, growing together at the base, linear, pointed |
| Habitat: | disturbed areas |
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