A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Minuartia uniflora
Plants annual. Taproots filiform. Stems erect to ascend-ing, green, 7-20 cm, glabrous, internodes of stems 1-7 times as long as leaves. Leaves not overlapping, connate proximally, with tight, herbaceous or scarious sheath 0.1-0.3 mm; blade straight to outwardly curved, widely spreading, green, flat, 1-veined abaxially, especially proximal, narrowly lanceolate to oblong, commonly linear, 2-20 × 0.3-1.5 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, scarious, smooth, apex green to purple, rounded to acute, dull, glabrous; axillary leaves poorly developed. Inflorescences 7-25+-flowered, open cymes; bracts subulate to ovate, herbaceous, margins scarious. Pedicels 0.5-5 cm, glabrous. Flowers: hypanthium disc-shaped; sepals obscurely veined, ovate to elliptic or lanceolate (herbaceous portion elliptic to lanceolate), 2-3.5 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex green, obtuse to rounded, not hooded, glabrous; petals oblanceolate to spatulate, 1.5-2.5 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, entire to shallowly notched. Capsules on stipe shorter than 0.1 mm, pyramidal-ovoid, 3.5-4 mm, longer than sepals. Seeds yellowish brown, suborbiculate with radicle obscure, slightly compressed, 0.4-0.6 mm, tuberculate; tubercles low, rounded. 2n = 14.
Minuartia uniflora (Oneflower Stitchwort) is native to the southeastern states (North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama). They are found in counties in the Piedmont area of Georgia. Flowering spring. Sandy or granitic outcrops; 70-200 m.
It's also called Oneflower Stitchwort.
Spotted on Mar 31, 2013
Submitted on Apr 4, 2013
No Comments