Sagina maritima Don

Sea pearlwort (en), Sagine maritime (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Caryophyllaceae > Sagina

Characteristics

Herb, annual, with slender tap root, usually glabrous. Stems procumbent to erect, sometimes densely tufted, with or without basal rosette leaves, 2–10 cm long. Leaves rather fleshy, linear, obtuse or acute, often mucronulate, 3–15 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, rarely ciliate. Flowers 4-merous, c. 4 mm diam.; pedicels ± erect, 2–20 mm long, glabrous. Calyx glabrous. Sepals ovate, 2–3 mm long, hooded, obtuse, often with purplish margins, suberect in fruit. Petals minute or absent. Stamens 4. Styles 4. Capsule ovoid, ± equalling sepals, c. 2.5 mm long. Seeds obliquely reniform, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, brown, ± grooved dorsally, tuberculate.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination autogamy
Spread barochory
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.03 - 0.12
Root system tap-root
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Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Fruit color -
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

A widespread plant of sandy and rocky places in southern Australia, often near the coast where it possibly may be indigenous.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 10 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 12
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Flower

Sagina maritima flower picture by Frédéric Dupont (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Sagina maritima world distribution map, present in Albania, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Algeria, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, Greece, Croatia, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:156478-1
WFO ID wfo-0000438539
COL ID 4TYH8
BDTFX ID 59091
INPN ID 119805
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Sagina stricta Sagina rodriguezii Alsine maritima Alsinella filiformis Alsinella maritima Sagina maritima