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Family: Caryophyllaceae
Moenchia erecta

Citation: P. Gaertner, Meyer & Scherb., Oek.-Tech. Flor. Wett. 1:219 (1799).

Synonymy: Sagina erecta L., Sp. Pl. 128 (1753); Cerastium quaternellum Fenzl, Vers. Darstell. Alsin. 56 (1833).

Common name: Erect chickweed, upright moenchia.

Description:
Slender erect glabrous annual, 3-20 cm high, usually with ascending basal branches; leaves linear to narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, glaucous, 5-15 mm long.

Flowers terminal or cymose, on long erect pedicels; sepals 5-6 mm long, lanceolate, acute, green with pale scarious margins; petals shorter than the sepals.

Capsule equalling or slightly exceeding the sepals; seeds numerous, minute, tuberculate.

image of FSA1_Moenchia_ere.jpg Moenchia erecta Twig , young flower, older flower and fruit.
Image source: fig. 141c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 201.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, SL, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   native to Europe.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.


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