Common name:
Red sand-spurrey
Family:
Scientific name:
Spergularia rubra
Main flower color:
Range:
England and Wales; less common in Scotland and Ireland
Height:
Stems are up to 25 cm long, usually prostrate
Habitat:
Dry grassland; often bare, sandy places
Flowers:
Up to 5 mm in diameter; five non-overlapping pink petals (paler at the base), and five shorter green sepals, with broad white, papery margins and a covering of glandular hairs. Three styles and five stamens, which have triangular white filaments and yellow anthers
Leaves:
Whorled, linear, greyish-green, bristle-tipped, with silvery stipules at the base
Season:
May to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
