Chickweeds, Mouse-ears & Allies
Chickweed Family - Caryophyllaceae
Parnassus Rupturewort Herniaria parnassicaNative from southern Albania to Crete. Found in open, grassy places at altitude. A perennial species with obovate leaves and hairs on the leaf margins curving forwards.
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Four-leaved Allseed Polycarpon tetraphyllum
Native to most of Europe, eastwards and southwards to Sri Lanka and East Africa.
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Capitate Nailwort Paronychia capitata
Native throughout the Mediterranean Region.
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Sand Spurrey Spergularia rubra
Native across Eurasia, the Mediterranean Region and North-east Africa.
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Procumbent Pearlwort Sagina procumbens
Native throughout Europe and the Mediterranean Region, eastwards to central and North-east Asia.
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Mediterranean Sandwort Sabulina mediterranea
Native throughout the Mediterranean Region. A small and easily overlooked species whose white flowers are often already over even by mid spring.
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Thyme-leaved Sandwort Arenaria serpyllifolia
Native throughout most of Eurasia to South-east Asia and across North and East Africa.
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Sticky Chickweed Stellaria cupaniana
Native throughout the Mediterranean Region from Spain to the Middle East and in Morocco.
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Greek Upright-chickweed Moenchia graeca
Native to the Balkan Peninsula and Aegean Islands.
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Illyrian Mouse-ear Cerastium illyricum
Native to southern Greece. Plant covered in appressed hairs, but with long, loose hairs on the sepals, exceeding the sepal tip. Petals about length of sepals or slightly longer.
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Sticky Mouse-ear Cerastium glomeratum
Native across Europe and the Mediterranean Region, eastwards to China.
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