Spergularia
Encyclopedia
Spergularia is a genus
of the Caryophyllaceae
family, containing plants known as sea-spurreys and sandspurrys. There are about 60 species.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of the Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae
The Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactaceae and Polygonaceae...
family, containing plants known as sea-spurreys and sandspurrys. There are about 60 species.
Species
- Spergularia azorica - endemic to the archipelago of the AzoresAzoresThe Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...
- Spergularia atrospermaSpergularia atrospermaSpergularia atrosperma is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name blackseed sandspurry. It is native to California and Nevada, where it grows in muddy and sandy habitat, often in moist alkaline substrates. It is a small annual herb producing a slender stem up to 15...
- Spergularia bocconiSpergularia bocconiSpergularia bocconi is a species of the Spergularia genus, in the Caryophyllaceae family. It is named after the Sicilian botanist Paolo Boccone. Scheele first published it as Alsine bocconi in 1843. It was transferred to the genus Spergularia by Graebner in 1919...
(Scheele) Graebn. - Boccone'sPaolo BocconePaolo Silvio Boccone was an Italian botanist from Sicily, whose interest in plants had been sparked at a young age...
sand-spurrey - Spergularia canadensisSpergularia canadensisSpergularia canadensis is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name Canadian sandspurry. It is native to North America where it is known from mainly coastal habitat along the coastline of Canada and northern parts of the United States, from Alaska to northern...
- Spergularia catalaunica Monnier
- Spergularia diandra (Guss.) Boiss.
- Spergularia echinosperma (Celak.) Asch. & Graebn.
- Spergularia heldreichii Foucaud
- Spergularia macrorrhiza (Loisel.) Heynh.
- Spergularia macrothecaSpergularia macrothecaSpergularia macrotheca is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name sticky sandspurry. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Baja California, where it grows in many types of moist coastal and inland habitat, often in alkaline and saline...
- Spergularia mediaSpergularia mediaSpergularia media is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name greater sea-spurry. It is native to Eurasia and the Mediterranean, where it grows in many types of habitat, including disturbed areas, including places with saline substrates, such as salt marshes and...
(L.) C.Presl - Greater Sea-spurrey - Spergularia nicaeensis Sarato ex Burnat
- Spergularia platensis
- Spergularia rubraSpergularia rubraSpergularia rubra, the red sand spurrey or red sandspurry, is a plant species in the pink family. It is native to Europe and Asia, and it is present on other continents, including North and South America and Australia, as an introduced species and in many areas a common weed. It grows in a wide...
(L.) J.Presl & C.Presl - Spergularia rupicola Lebel ex Le Jol.
- Spergularia salina J.Presl & C.Presl
- Spergularia segetalis (L.) G.Don
- Spergularia tangerina P.Monnier
- Spergularia villosaSpergularia villosaSpergularia villosa is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name hairy sandspurry. It is native to southern South America, and it is known in the southwestern United States and Baja California as an introduced species and casual weed. It grows in a wide variety of...