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Myosurusminimus Linnaeus. Mousetail. Phen: Mar-May. Hab: Usually in disturbed areas, such as fields in floodplains. Dist: The species is circumboreal and also found in various places in the Southern Hemisphere. Widely distributed in North America, Eurasia, and the Southern Hemisphere. The pre-Columbian occurrence of Myosurus in parts of our area (such as the Coastal Plain and Piedmont of the Atlantic states) is uncertain; it may well be an alien, early introduced from more western parts of se. North America.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Taxonomy Comments: A number of subspecies have been described; if these are recognized, our material in eastern North America is the typic ssp. minimus.
Other Comments: The plant is a winter annual, sprouting from seed in the fall, overwintering as a rosette, and flowering in early spring.
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Horticultural Information
Intro:Erect, rosette-forming annual mostly seen in disturbed areas, such as fields in floodplains.
Stems:Stems 1 or more leafless, unbranched and smooth flowering stalks.
Leaves:Leaves basal, linear, blunt-tipped, 2-4 in. long and shorter than to slightly exceeding the scapes, smooth.
Inforescence:
Flowers:Flowers solitary and terminating each scape; whitish- to yellowish-green; consisting of 5 spreading, lance-oblong sepals, each with a downward-pointing, narrowly triangular, spurlike extension; 5 tiny petals; 5--10 stamens and an elongated, cylindrical ovary bearing multiple pistils.
Fruits:Fruit a conical, spike-like cluster of multiple flattened, rectangular achenes.
Comments:
Height:2-6 in.
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description:Erect, rosette-forming annual mostly seen in disturbed areas, such as fields in floodplains.
stems:Stems 1 or more leafless, unbranched and smooth flowering stalks.
leaves:Leaves basal, linear, blunt-tipped, 2-4 in. long and shorter than to slightly exceeding the scapes, smooth.
inflorescence:
flowers:Flowers solitary and terminating each scape; whitish- to yellowish-green; consisting of 5 spreading, lance-oblong sepals, each with a downward-pointing, narrowly triangular, spurlike extension; 5 tiny petals; 5--10 stamens and an elongated, cylindrical ovary bearing multiple pistils.
fruits:Fruit a conical, spike-like cluster of multiple flattened, rectangular achenes.
