Arenaria macradenia

Taxobox
name = "Arenaria macradenia"


regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Caryophyllales
familia = Caryophyllaceae
genus = "Arenaria"
species = "A. macradenia"
binomial = "Arenaria macradenia"
binomial_authority = S.Wats.

"Arenaria macradenia" is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names Mojave sandwort and desert sandwort. It is native to the southwestern United States, where it grows on desert slopes and in dry woodland and sagebrush. This is a perennial herb producing a tuft of erect stems 20 to 40 centimeters tall. The leaves are needlelike, a few centimeters long and sharp or blunt at the tip. The inflorescence is an open cyme of white flowers each with five petals. The fruit is a toothed capsule containing several small reddish to black seeds. There are four varieties of this species. Three are not rare but one variety, var. "kuschei", is limited to about 130 individuals in the mountains of eastern Los Angeles County, California. [ [http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/ASP/CPC_ViewProfile.asp?CPCNum=267 Center for Plant Conservation: "A. m." var. "kuschei"] ]

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External links

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?2907,2912,2923 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ARMA3 USDA Plants Profile]