Paronychia argentea is an herbaceous plant from the family Caryophyllaceae that grows in sandy areas, ways, abandoned fields and dry terrains.
Sight of the plant in its habitat
Species of flowering plant
Paronychia argentea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Order:
Caryophyllales
Family:
Caryophyllaceae
Genus:
Paronychia
Species:
P.argentea
Binomial name
Paronychia argentea
Lam.
Description
It is an annual species with procumbent habits, which reaches 30cm height. Similar to Paronychia capitata but with almost all glabrous leaves, a rigid and prominent sow, and calyx lobules with transparent margins.[1]
The stem is glabrous or pubescent, with opposite, elliptical and mucronate leaves.
The flowers grow in lateral and terminal glomerulus. They are hermaphrodite, pentamerous and actinomorphic, accompanied with scaly silver bracts bigger that themselves. The fruit is an achene.
Habitat and distribution
They can be encountered all around the Mediterranean Sea. It grows in abandoned or dry terrains, dunes and ditches, and flourishes from winter to summer.
Uses
It is used stewed, as a diuretic and blood purifier, and as a plaster to cure wounds.[2]
Taxonomy
Paronychia argentea was described by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and published in Flore Françoise[es] 3: 230. 1778[1779].[3]
Cytology
Paronychia argentea (Fam. Caryophyllaceae) infraspecific number of chromosomes and taxa: 2n=28[4]
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