Tasmanian Sand-Spurrey

Other Common Names:

Spergularia aff. media, Spergularia 'Butchers Gap', Spergularia sp. 1

Also known as Spergularia sp. B in New South Wales, as Spergularia ‘Butchers Gap’ in South Australia, as Spergularia sp. 1 in Victoria and Western Australia and as Spergularia aff. media in Tasmania.

Status:

Uncertain but likely to be native to Australia. Occurs in all southern states and in New Zealand.

Plant Description:

Annual to perennial with a thick woody rootstock. Stems robust and more or less erect to 40 cm long. Leaves fleshy, linear and flattened, mucronate to shortly awned. Flowers pink with 6-10 stamens and shorter than the 4-7 mm sepals. Capsules longer than the sepals and contain winged, black and warty seeds, 0.7-1.1 mm long.

Habitat:

Widespread in marine and inland saline wetlands.

Comments:

A simplified key to Spergularia species can be accessed here – Key to species