110+, see text Paronychia is a genus of plants in the family Caryophyllaceae with over 110 species worldwide, mostly from warm-temperate North America, Eurasia, South America and Africa.

For the most part they have small, white to yellow-white colored flowers that are often hidden within the paired bracts.

The common names for some of the species include chickweed, nailwort, and Whitlow-wort.

The genus gets its name from the disease of the fingernails which it was once thought to cure.

Traditional healers in modern-day use species of this genus to treat kidney stones.