Modiola caroliniana, (L.) G. Don fil.
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1. M. caroliniana (L.) G. Don fil. View in CoL , Gen. Syst. 1: 466 (1831).
More or less setose annual, or sometimes perennial. Stems up to 50 cm, procumbent and rooting at the base, usually ascending towards the apex. Leaves 5-8 cm, deltate to suborbicular- reniform in outline, varying from incise-dentate to deeply palmatisect with 3-7 pinnatifid lobes. Epicalyx-segments lanceolate; sepals broadly triangular-ovate; petals 3-5 mm, slightly exceeding sepals, orange-scarlet. Mericarps c. 20, black; lateral faces rugose in lower half; dorsal face densely setose and bearing 2 stout spines. Naturalized in damp, grassy places in N. Spain and N.W. Portugal. [Hs Lu.] {Tropical America and warmtemperate North America; widely naturalized elsewhere.)
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Modiola caroliniana
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981 |
M. caroliniana (L.)
| G. Don fil. 1831: 466 |