Plant Group: Dicotyledon
Family Description:
Annual or perennial herbs. Simple leaves in opposite pairs with successive pairs oriented at right angles to each other. Flowers white or pink, with four or five sepals and petals and eight or ten stamens. Ovaries are superior and fruits are capsules.
| Genera | Species | Images |
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Cerastium |
glomeratum | |
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Petrorhagia |
dubia | |
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Polycarpon |
tetraphyllum | |
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Sagina |
apetala | |
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Silene |
gallica | |
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Spergularia Soft plants with many slender prostrate stems, leaves like thick threads in pairs encircling the stem above conspicuous stipules. Pink, cupped flowers in somewhat curved sprays. Fruit a globular capsule. |
media | |
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Stellaria Five radiating white petals are cleft to the base, flowers appear to have ten narrow petals. Sepals usually three-nerved. |
pungens |
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