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salt-marsh sand-spurrey, salt sand-spurrey

Habit Plants annual; from slender taproots.
Stems

4–25 cm.

Leaves

axillary leaf clusters absent;

blades linear, 15–40 mm; fleshy;

stipules inconspicuous, widely triangular, 1.2–3.5 mm; dull white;

tips acute or short-acuminate.

Flowers

sepal lobes 2.5–4.5 mm; up to 4.8 mm in fruit;

petals white or pink to rosy;

stamens 2–5;

styles 0.4–0.7 mm.

Seeds

0.5–0.7(0.8) mm, light brown to red-brown; smooth or roughened, papillate or not, not usually winged.

2n

=18?, 36.

Spergularia marina

Distribution
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Discussion

Salt marshes, roadsides. Flowering May–Aug. 0–1400 m. BW, Casc, CR, ECas, Est, Owy, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; most of North America; Asia, Europe. Native?

Formerly only found in salt marshes, S. marina has been collected twice along roadsides since 2005.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 577
Rich Rabeler, Ronald Hartman
Sibling taxa
S. bocconi, S. canadensis, S. diandra, S. macrotheca, S. marina, S. media, S. rubra, S. villosa
Synonyms Spergularia salina, Spergularia salina var. salina
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