General Information |
Distribution | Native to Eurasia, now naturalized in many areas.In the Hawaiian Islands,
naturalized on
Kure, Midway, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Short-lived perennial herbs; stems grayish green, ascending or some decumbent, covered with appressed, branched hairs.
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Leaves
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Leaves linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 1-3 cm long, 0.1-0.4 cm wide.
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Flowers
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Flowers small, fragrant; petals ca. 3 mm long; staminal filaments with 2 unequally sized glands at base.
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Fruit
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Silicles obovate to suborbicular, 2.5-3.5 mm long, sparsely pubescent.
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Seeds
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Seeds 1 per cell, ellipsoid, compressed, 1-1.5 mm long.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 22-24
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