Family: Caryophyllaceae
Sagina procumbens
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 128 (1753).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Spreading pearlwort.
Description:
Small usually glabrous mat-forming perennial herb to c. 6 cm high, with short non-flowering main stems, bearing a dense basal leaf rosette and numerous lateral branches c. 15 cm long ascending from the procumbent rooting lower nodes; leaves linear-subulate, c. 9 mm long, shortly aristate (awned), glabrous.
Flowers 4-merous; pedicels, c. 18 mm long, usually glabrous, curved after flowering; sepals ovate-obtuse, c. 2 mm long, concave; petals entire, half the length of the sepals or absent; stamens 4.
Capsule c. 3 mm long.
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Image source: fig. 143c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Ross-Craig (1951) Drawings Brit. Pl. 5:t. 55.
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NL, MU, YP, SL, SE. W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. New Zealand; native to Europe.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: throughout the year, especially Jan. — April.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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