Caryophyllaceae

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  • Cerastium arvense / field chickweed

    • Erect or trailing stems, if you can see them amongst the competition
    • Clusters of 1 to many white flowers with 5 deeply cleft petals
    • Petals much longer than the green sepals
    • Opposite, linear, sessile leaves - not very long
    • Cylindrical seed capsules with 10 teeth at top

  • Dianthus armeria / Deptford pink

    • PINK! 5 petaled, very small flowers
    • Toothed edges; white spots on petals, numerous stamens
    • Linear, opposite leaves; bases make sheath around stem
    • Disturbed areas; happy enough in the worst of soils

  • Eremogene kingii / King’s sandwort

    • low-growing herb with long, thin basal leaf clusters
    • white, 5-petaled flowers, ca. 1/2 in across, in terminal clusters
    • 10 stamens, sometimes dark, sometimes white
    • at higher elevations on shallow soil

  • Eremogone congesta / sandwort

    • very small (teeny) white flowers in a ball-like arrangement
    • tufts of pointy-tipped needle-like leaves 3" or less long
    • cushion plant
    • dry, rocky or sandy soils, rock crevices

  • Eremogone capillaris / fescue sandwort

    • five petals, white, in clusters of ca. 3 flowers per stalk
    • prominent stamens with large anthers
    • grass-like (fescue-like) opposite leaves
    • in clumps or mats, in rock cracks and rocky meadows
    • alpine and subalpine

  • Sabulina nuttallii / Nuttall’s sandwort

    • small, glandular-pubescent perennial
    • trailing stems form mats
    • thin, rigid, needle-like leaves, about ½" long
    • small, white, 5-petaled flowers in terminal clusters
    • 5 green, pointy sepals
    • sagebrush hills to alpine slopes, and especially on gravelly benches or talus

  • Silene latifolia / white campion

    • white, 5-petaled flowers with distinctive inflated calyx (bladder)
    • flowers in clusters atop stems
    • whole plant densely hairy
    • widespread on alkaline soils (e.g. the Valley)

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