Sagina nodosa, (L.) Fenzl

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 146

1. S. nodosa (L.) Fenzl , Vers. Darstell. Alsin. tab. ad 18 (1833).

Perennial with short non-flowering main stem and many procumbent or ascending flowering stems 5-15(-35)cm, each with a basal rosette and with cauline leaves markedly diminishing upwards. Upper leaves shorter than the internodes and mostly with short dense axillary leaf-fascicles; all leaves narrowly linear, shortly mucronate. Flowers 1-3, 5-merous, 5-10 mm in diameter. Sepals 2-4 mm, ovate-oblong, obtuse; petals 2-3 times as long as the sepals; stamens 10. Ripe capsule 1 £ times as long as the appressed sepals. 2n = 22-24, 44, 56. In damp places. Throughout Europe except most of the south-east and some islands. Au Be Br Co CzDa Fa Fe Ga Ge Hb He Ho Hs Hu Is It Ju Lu No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W) Su.

Var. moniliformis (G. F. W. Meyer) Lange , procumbent and rarely flowering, but with numerous deciduous bulbil-like axillary fascicles, occurs in N. Europe and may merit subspecific rank.