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Valerianella texana

Valerianella texana Dyal

Edwards Plateau Cornsalad

Valerianaceae (Valerian Family)

Synonym(s):

USDA Symbol: VATE4

USDA Native Status: L48 (N)

Plant: 1-3 dm. tall, rather frail, pubescent on the angles. Leaves: Hairy on the margin and upper surface, the lower spatulate, the upper ovate, sessile. Bracts: Lanceolate, ciliate. Inflorescence: Loosely and corymbosely cymose, corolla white. Fruit: Yellowish, laterally compressed, less than 1 mm. long, with four lines of short capitate hairs, 2 down the dorsal side of the fertile cell and one down the ventral side of each sterile cell; fertile cell narrowly oblong, produced at apex into a prominent tooth, much narrower than the combined width of the sterile cells which have a narrow deep groove between them with a prominent nerve down the middle of the groove.