#genus_Paronychia__Paronychia low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts
supertype: caryophylloid_dicot_genus__caryophylloiddicotgenu genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
member of: family_Caryophyllaceae
member: whitlowwort any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)
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