Valerianella chenopodiifolia (Pursh) DC.
Family: Valerianaceae
Goose-Foot Cornsalad,  more...
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From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam

Our only specimens were collected by Nieuwland in Studebaker's woods, St. Joseph County. One specimen was collected June 4, 1912, and another was collected July 17, 1919. This cornsalad was reported in 1895 from Hamilton and Marion Counties by Wilson but I have not seen specimens to confirm this report.

Bracts and uppermost lvs lanceolate, glabrous, acute; cor white, 3-4 mm; fr sharply triangular in cross-section, the fertile locule flat on the back, much wider than the 2 sterile ones, which are barely separated by a short pit near the center. S. Ont. to Wis., s. to Pa. and Ind. May, June.

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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