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Support the Flora of the Southeastern US

2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
With financial support from people like you, we are aiming even higher in 2025. Together we can accomplish all this: Vote on our 2025 priorities
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Key to Molluginaceae

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1 Plants stellate-pubescent; sepals connate at base
1 Plants glabrous; sepals distinct.
  2 Leaves glaucous; leaves in whorls of 4-12; plants erect; seeds 0.3-0.4 mm long, finely reticulate
  2 Leaves green; leaves in whorls of 3-8; plants prostrate to ascending; seeds 0.5-0.6 mm long, smooth or with parallel curving ridges