WorldFloraDB - Spergula morisonii

Characteristics

Plants glabrous or densely pubescent or glandular. Stems often branched proximally, 5-35 cm. Leaf blades usually flat, 0.3-1.5(-2) cm, usually not channeled abaxially. Pedicels erect to ascen-ding, spreading or sometimes reflexed in fruit, sometimes secund. Flowers: sepals 3-4 mm; petals ovate, 3-8 times as long as sepals in flower, apex obtuse; stamens usually 10. Capsule valves 3.5-6 mm. Seeds winged, lenticular, 0.9-1 mm wide, surface minutely roughened or low-tuberculate (50×), with marginal ring of tan, club-shaped papillae; wings light brown to brownish black, 0.2-0.3 mm wide. 2n = 18 (Europe).

More

Much like no. 1 [Spergula arvensis L.], but the lvs not channelled and the seeds compressed, with a brownish, striate wing barely or scarcely half as wide as the body; pet ovate, contiguous or slightly overlapping, obtuse; 2n=18. European weed, occasionally intr. in our coastal states and fully established at least in s. N.J.

Life form

annual

Growth form

herb

Growth support

-

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

entomogamy

Spread

anemochory

Mature width (meter)

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Mature height (meter)

0.07 - 0.33

Root system

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Rooting depth (meter)

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Root diameter (meter)

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Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

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Fruiting months

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Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

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Usage

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Cultivation

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