− | {{edit-desc}}<!--- Type GENERAL genus/plant description below this line, then delete this entire line --> | + | Calandrinia (J. L. Calandrini, Genevan botanist, who wrote an important thesis in 1734). Portulacaceae. Fleshy, spreading or nearly trailing plants, sometimes cult. in borders and rockeries, or used for edgings in sunny places.{{SCH}} |
| + | Flowers red or pink or rose-color, of short duration; petals 3-7; sepals 2; stamens 5 (or 3) to 12; style with 3 branches: Ivs. alternate, narrow.—About 60 species, Brit. Col. to S. Amer. and in Austral. Annuals and perennials, but the latter mostly treated as annuals; not much grown in gardens.{{SCH}} |