Sabulina pusilla
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|genus = Sabulina
|species = pusilla
|authority = (S.Watson) Dillenb. & Kadereit (2014)
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- Alsinopsis pusilla {{small|(S.Watson) Rydb. (1912)}}
- Arenaria pusilla {{small|S.Watson (1882)}}
- Minuartia pusilla {{small|(S.Watson) Mattf. (1921)}}
|synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77137562-1 Sabulina pusilla (S.Watson) Dillenb. & Kadereit]. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
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Sabulina pusilla is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names annual sandwort and dwarf stitchwort.
It is native to western North America from British Columbia to southern California to Utah, from sea level to {{convert|2400|m|ft}}. It grows in mountain pine forests, chaparral, plains, and other habitats.
Description
Sabulina pusilla is a petite annual herb producing a slender, erect stem no more than 5 centimeters tall. The tiny green concave leaves are thready to lance-shaped, up to 5 millimeters long and no more than 1.5 millimeters wide.Abigail J. Moore, Ronald L. Hartman & Richard K. Rabeler (2022) [https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=99706 Sabulina pusilla] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.), Jepson eFlora, Revision 11. Accessed 25 March 2024.
The tiny flower has five pointed sepals just a few millimeters long. There may be five white petals which are roughly the same length as the sepals or slightly smaller, though sometimes the flowers lack petals.
References
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External links
- [https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=99706 Sabulina pusilla, Jepson eFlora]
- [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MIPU7 USDA Plants Profile]
- [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250060650 Flora of North America]
- [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Minuartia+pusilla Minuartia pusilla — U.C. Photo gallery]
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Category:Flora of Washington (state)
Category:Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Category:Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Category:Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
Category:Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
Category:Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status
Category:Plants described in 1882
Category:Taxa named by Sereno Watson
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