Samolus vagans Greene  
Family: Primulaceae
Chiricahua Mountain brookweed
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Plants light green, stoloniferous or mat-forming, 0.2-3 dm. Stems usually prostrate or arching. Leaves often crowded near plant base, petiolate or nearly sessile; blade orbiculate to broadly spatulate, 0.5-6 cm, base decurrent, broadly cuneate (or somewhat rounded), apex obtuse. Inflorescences terminal and axillary in distal leaves, racemose, sessile or short-pedunculate; peduncle to 1.5 cm, shorter than to equaling stem. Pedicels usually spreading, bracteate, 1.4-10 mm, glabrous; bract proximal to midlength. Flowers: calyx 1-2 mm, lobes triangular-ovate, equaling or longer than tube, apex acute, not glandular; corolla white, 1-3 mm, lobes oblong, longer than tube, base glabrous, apex rounded or slightly emarginate; staminodes 5. Capsules 2-3 mm. Flowering spring-fall. Moist to wet sandy places; of conservation concern; 1000-2000 m; Ariz.; Mexico (Durango).
Plant: perennial; 5-30 cm long with prostrate or arching stems or sometimes stoloniferous or mat-forming Leaves: cauline, 0.5-6 cm long, petiolate or nearly subsessile; blades circular, obovate or spatulate INFLORESCENCE: with leaf-like bracts on the main axis and with tiny bracts attached on lower half of the pedicels; flowers 2-10 Flowers: white; calyx 1-2.3 mm long; corolla 1-3 mm long; staminodia 5 Fruit: FRUITS valvate Misc: In or along streams, pools, or moist-wet meadows; 1050-1900 m (3500-6200 ft); May-Oct REFERENCES: Cholewa Anita F. 1992. Primulaceae. Ariz.-Nev. Acad. Sci. 26(1)2.
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