Plumbaginaceae
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Authority
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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Family
Plumbaginaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Family Description - Fls regular, perfect, hypogynous, pentamerous throughout; cal dry and ± scarious, persistent, the tube often conspicuously ribbed and with membranous intervals, the lobes often showy and somewhat petaloid; corolla sympetalous or seldom of essentially distinct, clawed pet, often persistent; stamens as many as and opposite the corolla-lobes (or pet); ovary unilocular, with a solitary basal ovule on a long funiculus; fr dry, indehiscent or circumscissile; mostly herbs or low shrubs with alternate (or all basal), simple, entire lvs, the herbage with characteristic scattered, often depressed chalk-glands; fls in panicles or racemes or cymose heads. 12/400.
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Common Names
The leadwort family