Sagina maritima

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 : 148

13. S. maritima G. Don ., Herb. Brit. fase. 7, 155 (1806).

Annual, usually glabrous, with or without a central rosette of leaves, main stem flowering, it and the numerous lateral branches varying from procumbent to erect; sometimes densely caespitose. Leaves linear-lanceolate, somewhat fleshy, obtuse or mucronulate but not aristate, rarely ciliate. Flowers usually 4-merous, solitary; peduncles erect, glabrous, filiform. Sepals ovate, obtuse, not mucronate, often with purplish margin; petals minute, or absent. Ripe capsule equalling or slightly shorter than the obliquely erect but not appressed sepals. Mean seed-size more than 0-4 mm. 2« = 22-24, 28. Coasts o f Europe from Bulgaria and S. W. Finland westwards, and northwards to 68° N. in Norway; occasionally inland, and on mountains up to 1,300 m in Scotland. Be BI Br Bu Co Cr D a Fe G a G r Hb H o Hs It Ju Lu N o Po Rs (B) Sa Su.

Very variable, many local species and subspecies having been described. All combinations of characters may be found, and it is difficult to make useful subdivisions.