Moehringia Moehringia, (Scop.) Dalla Torre

21. M. ciliata (Scop.) Dalla Torre View in CoL in Hartinger, Atlas Alpenfl. (Text) 78 (1882)

( M. polygonoides (Wulfen) Mert. & Koch ).

Creeping, laxly caespitose perennial with usually glabrous stems up to 20 cm. Leaves 3-10 x 0-6-1 mm, linear to linear-lanceolate, somewhat fleshy, obscurely 1- to 3-veined, glabrous except for a few cilia at the base. Flowers 5-merous, solitary or in 2- to 3-flowered cymes; pedicels 10-15 mm. Sepals 3-4 mm, ovate, 1- to 3-veined; petals slightly exceeding sepals. Seeds 1-1-2 mm, black, shiny; strophiole small, finely laciniate. 2« = 24. • Calcareous screes. Alps; N. W. part o f Balkan peninsula; E. Pyrenees. AlAuGaGeHeHsItJu.

D w arf plants with petals nearly twice as long as the sepals occur at high altitudes in the Alps. They have been called subsp. nana (St. Lager) Schinz & R. Keller , but their status requires investigation.