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Sabulina stricta

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Sabulina stricta
Fig. D (as Alsine stricta)

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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Sabulina
Species:
S. stricta
Binomial name
Sabulina stricta
(Sw.) Rchb. (1832)
Synonyms[2]
Synonymy
  • Alsinanthe stricta (Sw.) Rchb. (1841)
  • Alsinanthe uliginosa (Schleich. ex DC.) Rchb. (1841)
  • Alsine rossii Fenzl in Vers. Darstell. Alsin.: 18 (1833)
  • Alsine stricta (Sw.) Wahlenb. (1812)
  • Alsine stricta Mert. & W.D.J.Koch (1831), nom. illeg.
  • Alsine uliginosa (Schleich. ex DC.) Syme (1863), nom. illeg.
  • Alsinella stricta (Sw.) Sw. (1814)
  • Alsinopsis stricta (Sw.) Small (1903)
  • Arenaria baicalensis Steud. (1840)
  • Arenaria muscorum Adans. ex Fisch. (1824), not validly publ.
  • Arenaria stricta var. uliginosa (Schleich. ex DC.) B.Boivin (1966)
  • Arenaria tenella Turcz. ex Steud. (1840), not validly publ.
  • Arenaria uliginosa Schleich. ex DC. (1805)
  • Arenaria uliginosa f. albina Polunin (1940)
  • Minuartia pusilla Schischk. (1936), nom. illeg.
  • Minuartia schischkinii Adylov (1967)
  • Minuartia stricta (Sw.) Hiern (1899)
  • Spergula stricta Sw. (1799) (basionym)

Sabulina stricta is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names bog stitchwort,[3] Teesdale sandwort[4] and rock sandwort. It has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout much of the northernmost Northern Hemisphere from the lower Arctic into the alpine climates of mountainous areas in temperate Eurasia and North America. It grows in several types of habitat, including meadows, marshes, heath, beaches and bars, and arctic and alpine tundra.[5][6]

This is a small, mat-forming perennial herb just a few centimeters high. The green or purplish, hairless, needlelike leaves are no more than a centimeter long and barely over a millimeter wide. The thin, flowering stems are sometimes erect, bearing tiny flowers with pointed sepals just a few millimeters long. The flowers often lack petals, or may have rudimentary petals no longer than the sepals.

It became a protected species in the UK in 1975 under the Conservation of Wild Creatures and Wild Plants Act.[7]

References

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  1. ^ NatureServe (2024). "Minuartia stricta". Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  2. ^ Sabulina stricta (Sw.) Rchb. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  3. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "​Minuartia stricta​". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  4. ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  5. ^ Brysting, A. K., et al. (2001 onwards). Caryophyllaceae of the Canadian Archipelago: Minuartia stricta
  6. ^ Flora of North America
  7. ^ "Caithness CWS - Caithness Field Club - Annual Bulletins - 1975 - October - Conservation".
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