Difference between revisions of "Sagina subulata"
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Latest revision as of 20:01, 17 August 2010
| Habit | herbaceous
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| Height: | ⇕ | 1 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 1. |
| Width: | ⇔ | 12 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12. |
| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
| Origin: | ✈ | Europe |
| Bloom: | ❀ | early summer, mid summer, late summer |
| Exposure: | ☼ | sun, part-sun |
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| Water: | ◍ | moist |
| Features: | ✓ | drought tolerant, ground cover |
| USDA Zones: | 4 to 7 | |
| Sunset Zones: | 1-11, 14-24, 32-43 | |
| Flower features: | ❀ | white |
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Sagina > |
subulata > |
Sagina subulata (Heath Pearlwort; syn. Sagina pilifera auct. non (DC.) Fenzl) is a species of Sagina, native to Europe, from Iceland south to Spain, and east to southern Sweden and Romania. It occurs on dry sandy or gravelly soils.[1][2][3]
Heath Pearlwort is a low-growing prostrate perennial plant forming a thick, dense mat with stems less than 10 cm long, and slender subulate (awl-shaped) leaves up to 1 cm long. The flowers are 4–5 mm diameter, with five white petals the same length as the green sepals; they are produced singly on erect stems 2–4 cm long. The seeds are smooth, brown, triangular shaped, 0.4–0.5 mm, produced in a capsule 2.5–3 mm long.[3][4][5]
Read about Sagina subulata in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Sagina subulata ( syn. S. pilifera Hort., Spergula pilifera Hort., Spergula subulata Sw.). Heath Pearlwort. An evergreen, hardy, densely tufted little plant, covering the ground like a sheet of moss: lvs. very small, stiff, aristate on the margin, linear: sts. branching and creeping: fls. white, studded all over the plant on long, very slender peduncles. July-Sept. Corsica. Var. aurea has lvs. marked with yellow. A good rock-plant in shady places. Cult. similar to Arenaria. Prop. by division.
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Varieties
There are two varieties, Sagina subulata var. subulata with glandular-hairy sepals, and Sagina subulata var. glabrata Gillot with hairless sepals; the latter is often a lawn weed, and has been confused with the related Mediterranean species Sagina pilifera.[3][6] The cultivar 'Aurea' is grown as a garden plant.[7]
Gallery
Plant growing as a weed between paving stones
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
External links
- w:Sagina subulata. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
- Sagina subulata QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)
- ↑ Flora Europaea: Sagina subulata
- ↑ Den virtuella floran: Sagina subulata (in Swedish, with maps)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Flora of NW Europe: Sagina subulata
- ↑ Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). Flora of Britain and Northern Europe. ISBN 0-340-40170-2
- ↑ Sagina subulata
- ↑ Flora of Northern Ireland: Sagina subulata
- ↑ Horticopia: Sagina subulata 'Aurea'
