| − | Paronychia argyrocoma, Nutt. (Anychia argyrocoma, Michx.). Erect or ascending perennial, 3-8 in. high, making broad tufts or mats, clothed with silvery appressed scale-like hairs: lvs. linear; stipules silvery white, scarious, entire, usually shorter than the lvs. : fls. in forking cymes; bracts large, silvery, membranous; staminodia minute. Rocky places. Maine and N. H. to Ga. and Tenn.—Also called silver chickweed, silverhead, and silver whitlow-wort. The northern form is sometimes separated as yar. albimontana, Fern., differing from the type (which | + | Paronychia argyrocoma, Nutt. (Anychia argyrocoma, Michx.). Erect or ascending perennial, 3-8 in. high, making broad tufts or mats, clothed with silvery appressed scale-like hairs: leaves linear; stipules silvery white, scarious, entire, usually shorter than the leaves : flowers in forking cymes; bracts large, silvery, membranous; staminodia minute. Rocky places. Maine and N. H. to Ga. and Tenn.—Also called silver chickweed, silverhead, and silver whitlow-wort. The northern form is sometimes separated as yar. albimontana, Fern., differing from the type (which |
| − | occurs from Va. south) in having branches mostly floriferous rather than most of them sterile, lvs. glabrate and with involute margins, and calyx-awns subulate and glabrescent.—P. argyrocoma is not difficult of cult, and is prized for rockeries, its silvery tufted appearance lending a distinct charm to the collection for this purpose. Prop, by seeds and division. | + | occurs from Va. south) in having branches mostly floriferous rather than most of them sterile, leaves glabrate and with involute margins, and calyx-awns subulate and glabrescent.—P. argyrocoma is not difficult of cult, and is prized for rockeries, its silvery tufted appearance lending a distinct charm to the collection for this purpose. Prop, by seeds and division. |