Spergularia salina, Salt sandspurry - Seeds - plants - dried herbs

Common names: Salt sandspurry, Salt-marsh sand-spurrey, Lesser sea-spurrey

Botanical name & synonyms: Spergularia salina, Spergularia marina, Spergularia marina var. tenuis, Spergularia salina var. tenuis, Spergularia tenuis, Tissa marina

Family: Pink, carnation (Caryophyllaceae)

• native to coasts of temperate to subarctic regions of the world
  

• annual
  

• 5 to 20cm
  

• flower V to IX
  

• plant community: alkaline fields, sandy river bottoms, sandy coasts, salt marshes, saline highway edges