. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . A'ernal Sandwort. Fig. 1783. Arenaria vcnui L. Mant. 72. 1767. A. propinqua Richards. Frankl. Journ. 738. 1823. A. verna propinqua Fernald, Rhodora 8: 32. 1906. Perennial, densely tufted, flowering stems erect or ascending, 1-5' high, branching, glabrous or sparingly pubescent. Leaves subulate-linear, rather rigid, imbricated below, more distant above. 2"-4" long,
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . A'ernal Sandwort. Fig. 1783. Arenaria vcnui L. Mant. 72. 1767. A. propinqua Richards. Frankl. Journ. 738. 1823. A. verna propinqua Fernald, Rhodora 8: 32. 1906. Perennial, densely tufted, flowering stems erect or ascending, 1-5' high, branching, glabrous or sparingly pubescent. Leaves subulate-linear, rather rigid, imbricated below, more distant above. 2"-4" long, the upper a little shorter and broader than the lower; flowers 2"-3" broad, numerous in loose cymes; pedicels 2"-4" long; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, i§"-2" long, 3-ribbed; petals slightly longer than the sepals; capsule 3-valved, exceeding the sepals; seeds rugose. In rocky places. Smuggler's Notch, Vt.; Mt. Albert, Gaspe, Quebec : Labrador and arctic America, south in the Rocky Mountains to Arizona. Also in north- ern and alpine Europe and .^sia. Summer.
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