VA, Tidewater, 20060815
Diane's Place, flowers.
Diodia virginiana []
In lawn, in patches, one near the locust benches.
| | GEN | | prostrate herb, peren? |
| | ST | | spreading to ascending hairy |
| | PET | | white, 4 lobes, 7mm filiform tube| lobes | | 3mm, acute, spread, hairy inside |
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| | OV | | 1, inf, 2 chamb, 1 ov per chamb |
Euphorbia cyparissias []
In old flower garden by barn.
| | ST | | sev long unbr brs w 1 shorter infl stalk in the center |
| | LF | | alt, 25x1mm, lin-ellip, glab, ascend-erect, dense |
| | INFL | | large umbel w sev brs bel main umbel too, peduncles 45mm, glab| bracts | | 2, 7x12mm, broadly ov |
the rest has fallen off |
Kummerowia striata []
Along brick walkway, etc.
| | GEN | | peren herb, low (well mowed at least) |
| | LFLT | | 3, pin, 8x4+0.5mm, obov, often retuse, always somewhat apic, entire, veins v conspic and few forked, ascend long cil, rachis nearly nonexist, petiole 3mm & hairy |
| | STIP | | 3.5mm, brown scar, obvious veins, lance-delt, acute |
| | SEP | | 5, join, 2.8mm, lobes 0.9x0.4mm & acutish, d sh strig, straw base to maroon lobes, not v asym |
| | PET | | pea, 6mm| ban | | 3x2.5mm, hot pink, 90deg |
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| | STAM | | 8 long joined, 1 short sep, glab, anth yell and tiny |
| | OV | | tiny, green, d min ascend bristly top and bot keels, 1 ovule, fusiform, lat comp |
| | STYLE | | glab, stig sl elong but simple |
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