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| Tasmanian Sand-spurrey photos | Family: Chickweed (Caryophyllaceae) |
| Scientific Name: | Spergularia tasmanica |  Tasmanian Sand-spurrey - plant Photo: A J Brown | |||||
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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.
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Comments: | A simplified key to Spergularia species can be accessed here – Key to species |
 Tasmanian Sand-spurrey - flower buds Photo: A J Brown |  Tasmanian Sand-spurrey - flower Photo: A J Brown |
Photo: A J Brown |
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 Mature capsule of Tasmanian Sand-spurrey Photo: A J Brown |
