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Paronychia argyrocoma

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Authors: Nutt.  

Botanical Description

with freely-branching spreading to ascending stems up to 30cm in length. Leaves linear, silvery grey-hairy, l-3cm long. Flower clusters surrounded and hidden by conspicuous silvery bracts, late summer. South-eastern U.S.A. among acidic mountain rocks. P.a, var, albimontana has glabrate leaves and is more floriferous.