Sea Pearlwort - Sagina maritima
Low growing slightly tufted plant. Leaves linear lanceolate, rather fleshy and blunt. Flowers 4 to 6 mm, four parted, petals minute or absent. Fruit with erect, purple edged, hooded sepals.
other pearlworts
Annual, with blunt leaves; minute or absent petals
Records must be verified by a County Recorder from a specimen or series of photos
Bare open habitats, often coastal.
May to September.
Annual.
Mostly coastal in Britain, but perhaps beginning to move inland along well salted roads.
Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland where the record from Stanton-under-Bardon dated 20th May 2015 is believed to be the first for VC55. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Geoffrey Hall
Stanton-under-Bardon
20 May 2015
1st record for VC55
Geoffrey Hall
Stanton-under-Bardon
20 May 2015
1st record for VC55
David Nicholls
Groby
29 April 2016
David Nicholls
Groby
05 June 2015
David Nicholls
Groby
05 June 2015
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- Common names
- Sea Pearlwort
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Caryophyllales
- Family:
- Caryophyllaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 20/05/2015 (Hall, Geoffrey)
- Last record:
- 07/05/2023 (Nicholls, David)
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David Nicholls
Groby
05 June 2015
