Paronychia

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Paronychia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Paronychia (old Greek name used by Dioscorides, meaning whitlow-wort, or a cure for whitlow, a disease of the fingers or toes). Caryophyllaceae; by some separated in Illecebraceae. Whitlow-wort. Annual and perennial little herbs, without showy flowers, adaptable to rock-gardens and borders. Plant tufted, low, with minute clustered fls. and silvery stipules; erect or diffuse, often dichotomously branching: lvs. opposite, broad or narrow, entire, the margins flat or very rarely recurved; stipules prominent, scarious, shining: fls. minute, without petals, axillary or rarely in terminal cymes, usually hidden among the stipules; sepals 5, awned; stamens 5; staminodia 5 (sometimes wanting), bristle-like or reduced to teeth; style 2-cleft: fr. an urticle inclosed in the calyx.—Species about 50, largely in the Medit. region, but widely distributed; several are native in the U. S. A very few are cult, in the hardy border. The two European species here given do not appear in the leading catalogues, domestic or foreign, but P. serpyllifolia is said to be much used for carpet-beddinç abroad. P. argéntea furnishes the Algerian tea. Allied to Herniaria, which see for generic differences. The species described below are perennials. They are of simple cult. ; prop, by seed and division. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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