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Montia howellii
S. Watson
Family:
Montiaceae
Howell's Candy-Flower
FNA
Resources
John M. Miller in Flora of North America (vol. 4)
Plants
annual, not rhizomatous, stoloniferous, or bulbiferous.
Stems
decumbent, freely branch-ing or simple, 1-10 cm, often rooting at nodes, forming small, loose mats.
Leaves
alternate, not distinctly petiolate, with clasping leaf sheaths; blade linear, 5-25 × 1-2 mm.
Inflorescences
axillary, 1-bracteate; bract minute, scarious.
Flowers
2-8; sepals 1-2 mm; petals 2-5, often absent, white, 0.7-1.5 mm; stamens (2-)3(-5), anther pink.
Seeds
0.5-1 mm, tuberculate; elaiosome minute, shorter than 0.5 mm.
Flowering spring. Moist woods; 0-500 m; B.C.; Calif., Oreg., Wash.
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