Petrorhagia prolifera

Proliferous pink

Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Proliferous pink is a naturalized annual found in central Sierra Nevada Foothills in Mariposa County's disturbed areas at approximately 400 meters elevation. Flowering during summer, this plant produces pink to pale purple flowers with petals that are truncate or shallowly notched. Growing with erect stems 6 to 60 centimeters tall, its stems are glabrous or slightly scabrous in the middle sections. Its leaves are linear to lance-linear, 12 to 30 millimeters long, with leaf sheaths approximately equal in length and width. The small seeds are 1.1 to 1.8 millimeters long with a distinctive net-like surface texture.

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Bloom period: Summer

Elevation: +- 400 m.

Bioregions: c SNF (Mariposa Co.)

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