Moehringia trinervia

Keleşot

Annual. Stems prostrate or ascending, up to 30 cm, pilose. Leaves shortly petiolate, ovate or narrowly ovate, acute, 3-5-nerved, ciliate. Flowers axillary or in few-flowered cymes. Sepals 5, lanceolate, with broad, scarious, ciliate margins, 4-5 mm. Petals white, shorter than the sepals. Capsule shorter than the sepals. Seeds black, each with a small, laciniate strophiole. FI. 5-6. Forests, shady places, up to 2300 m.

Europe, Caucasia, N. & N.W. Iran, Transcaspia, Turkestan, N.W. Africa.