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| Distribution | Native to Europe, now widely naturalized.In the Hawaiian Islands,
naturalized on
Kure, Midway, Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Kaho`olawe, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Annual, biennial, or short-lived perennial herbs; stems quadrangular, prostrate or decumbent, often rooting at the nodes, 1-6(-9) dm long, forming
compact mats.
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Leaves
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Leaves opposite or rarely whorled, ovate to elliptic or lanceolate, 8-20(-25) mm long, 4-14(-18) mm wide, glabrous, apex acute, base rounded, truncate, or subcordate, sessile and somewhat clasping the stem.
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Flowers
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Flowers on slender pedicels 5-40 mm long, recurved in fruit; sepals lanceolate, 3-5 mm long, margins scarious toward base; corolla salmon, sometimes blue or various paler colors, the lobes 4-5(-10) mm long, minutely ciliate toward apex; staminal filaments hirsute with pale bluish hairs.
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Fruit
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Capsules papery, 4-6 mm in diameter, circumscissile, the style persistent.
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Seeds
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Seeds dark brown, ca. 0.8 mm long, minutely pitted.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 22, 28, 40
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