1. Floérkea Willd. Neue Schrift. Ges. Nat. Fr. 3: 448. 1801
Description
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1. Floérkea Willd. Neue Schrift. Ges. Nat. Fr. 3: 448. 1801
Annual diffuse glabrous herbs with small white solitary flowers. Sepals 3, valvate. Glands 3. Petals 3, oblong, entire. Stamens 4-6. Ovary 2-3-lobed nearly to the base, 2-3-celled; stigmas 2-3. Mature carpels 1-3, rugose, indehiscent, fleshy. Seed erect. [In honor of H. G. Floerke, 1790-1835, a German botanist.]
Two species, the following typical one, and the closely related F. occidentalis Rydb., of the western United States.
1. Floerkea Proserpinacoides Willd. False Mermaid
Fig. 2687
Floerkea prosperpinacoides Willd. Neue Schrift. Ges. Nat. Fr. 3: 448. 1801.
Slender, weak, 4'-15' long, branching. Leaves thin, slender-petioled, §'-3' long, the segments 5 or 3, distant, lanceolate, oblong or linear-oblong, acute or obtusish, entire or cleft; peduncles slender, elongating in fruit; flowers white, about 1 1/2" broad; sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, at length much exceeding the fruit; stamens about equalling the petals; ripe carpels nearly globular, about 1 1/2" in diameter, tuberculate above.
In marshes and along rivers, Quebec to Ontario, Wisconsin, Delaware, Tennessee and Missouri. April-June.
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