NameThatPlant.net: Sabulina patula

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabulina patula FAMILY Caryophyllaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Minuartia patula FAMILY Caryophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Mononeuria patula

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Minuartia patula

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Arenaria patula var. patula

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Sabulina patula

COMMON NAME:
Lime-barren Sandwort, Glade Sandwort

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image of Sabulina patula, Lime-barren Sandwort, Glade Sandwort

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_arpa27_001_lvd

Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_minuartia_patula

April

Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_minuartia_patula_2

April

Sepals acute, with 5 prominent nerves, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sabulina patula FAMILY Caryophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Minuartia patula FAMILY Caryophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Mononeuria patula

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Minuartia patula

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Arenaria patula var. patula

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sabulina patula

3739

Forb
Annual/Winter annual

Habitat: Rocky barrens of calcareous or mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare in GA

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Usually bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5 petals
10 stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

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