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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Paronychia erecta
|accepted_authority=(Chapman) Shinners
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=1: 102. 1962
|year=1962
}}
|common_names=Squareflower
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Siphonychia erecta
|authority=Chapman
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|publication_place=47. 1860
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Odontonychia corymbosa
|authority=(Small) Small
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Odontonychia erecta
|authority=(Chapman) Small
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paronychia erecta var. corymbosa
|authority=(Small) Chaudhri
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia erecta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Paronychia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Paronychia erecta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 30, 31
|treatment_page=page 37
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial (occasionally biennial), often matted; taproot stout. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to ascending, branched especially distally, retrorsely to spreading-pubescent throughout (when pubescent); flowering stems 8–48 cm; sterile stems 2–10 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules ovate-lanceolate, 2–12 mm, apex acuminate, entire; blade linear to spatulate-oblanceolate, 4–40 × 1–4 mm, leathery, apex obtuse to acute, moderately antrorsely pubescent. <b>Cymes</b> terminal, 15–200+-flowered, branched, densely to loosely grouped to form subcorymbose clusters 5–50 mm wide. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, narrowly ellipsoid, with slightly enlarged hypanthium and calyx tapering distally, 2.3–3.5 mm, glabrous to slightly puberulent proximally with straight to hooked hairs; sepals red-brown, white or whitish distally, veins absent, narrowly oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 1.4–2 mm, papery, margins white, ca. 0.1 mm wide, papery, apex rounded, hood formed from slight incurving, awn or mucro absent; staminodes narrowly oblong, 0.4 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 1/10, 1.3–1.7 mm. <b>Utricles</b> ovoid to ellipsoid, 1–1.2 mm, rugulose, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Coastal dunes, sandflats, pine/oak woodlands
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;La.;Miss.
|discussion=<p>Plants with pubescent stems, strigose leaves, and pubescent receptacles have been recognized as var. corymbosa.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Paronychia erecta
|authority=(Chapman) Shinners
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Odontonychia corymbosa;Odontonychia erecta;Paronychia erecta var. corymbosa
|basionyms=Siphonychia erecta
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Coastal dunes, sandflats, pine/oak woodlands
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;La.;Miss.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=1962
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_66.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia erecta
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