WorldFloraDB - Floerkea proserpinacoides

Characteristics

Plants (3-)5-30(-38) cm, herbage glabrous. Leaves: petiole 0.5-4 cm; rachis 2.5-5 mm; leaflets 3-7, 7-12 × 1-3.5 mm, apex obtuse or acute. Pedicels 0.5-2 cm (± equal to subtending petiole at anthesis, elongating 1.5 times by fruit maturity). Flowers: sepals green, 5-nerved, 2-6 mm; petals white, greenish white, or pale pink, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 1.4-2 mm; filaments filiform, 1-1.5 mm; anthers yellowish, broadly ellipsoid, 0.2-0.3 mm. Mericarps green to brown, somewhat fleshy, 2-3.5 × 2-3 mm (often only 1 seed maturing per flower). 2n = 10.

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Glabrous, weak, decumbent to suberect, 0.5–3 dm; lvs compound or deeply divided into 3–7 linear, oblanceolate or elliptic segments 0.5–2 cm; pedicels axillary, at first about equaling the petiole, much longer in fr; sep lance-ovate, 2.5–3 mm at anthesis, to 6 mm at maturity; pet oblanceolate, 1–2 mm; mericarps 2.5 mm, ovoid-globose, warty. Damp woods in rich soil; N.S. and w. Que. to B.C., s. to Del., Tenn., and Calif. Apr., May.

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Growth form	herb
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