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Floerkea
Family: Limnanthaceae
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Gordon C. Tucker in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Stems decumbent to erect. Leaves ternate or pinnately lobed; leaflet blade oblanceolate to elliptic, sometimes 2-3-parted, margins entire. Pedicels spreading or nodding. Flowers: sepals 3, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate; petals 3, shorter than sepals; nectary glands antisepalous; stamens 3 or 6; ovary 3-lobed. Fruits mericarps, ovoid-globose, tuberculate or rugulose (especially distally). x = 5.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Fls 3-merous, autogamous; pet shorter than the sep; stamens 3-6; carpels 2 or 3; style shortly cleft at the top; delicate autogamous annuals with small white fls. Monospecific.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Floerkea proserpinacoides
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