Common name:
Knotted pearlwort
Family:
Scientific name:
Sagina nodosa
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK
Height:
Up to 15 cm
Habitat:
Damp grassland and dunes, often near the coast; also bare mountainsides
Flowers:
Around 10 mm in diameter; five oval petals, rounded at the tip, five green sepals about half as long, ten stamens and five styles. Sepals have a sparse hair covering, and translucent margins. Flowers are produced singly or in small numbers, at the top of the short stem
Leaves:
Narrow, linear, fleshy, pointed at the tip, in closely spaced clusters
Season:
July to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
