Spergularia canadensis var. canadensis
Common names: Canadian sand-spurrey spergulaire du Canada
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 20.
Plants 3–25 cm, glabrous except pedicels rarely stipitate-glandular. Stems prostrate or decumbent, widely branched. Stipules 1–2.8 mm. Sepals 2.2–3.2 mm, to 4.5 mm in fruit, apex broadly rounded or blunt. Capsules 3.6–5.2 mm, 1.5–2 times as long as sepals. Seeds 0.9–1.4 mm. 2n = 36.
Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Coastal salt marshes, brackish river margins, moist beach sand
Elevation: 0-50 m
Distribution
St. Pierre and Miquelon, N.B., Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.), N.S., Nunavut, Ont., P.E.I., Que., Conn., Maine, Mass., N.H., N.Y., R.I.
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
"-2timesaslongassepals" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.
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