Sagina saginoides
Alpine Pearlwort ( Sagina saginoides ) Illustration in Anton Hartinger: Atlas of Alpine flora, 1882
The Alps - Pearlwort ( Sagina saginoides ) is a plant in the family of the Caryophyllaceae ( Caryophyllaceae ).
Description
The Alps - mast herb grows as overwintering green, perennial herbaceous plant, reaching heights of growth 2-8 inches. The prostrate to ascending stem is usually unbranched. The leaves are against standing bare, narrowly linear with a short spike tip.
The flowering period extends from June to August. The flower stalk is up to 2.5 inches long. The hermaphrodite flowers are fünfzählig double perianth. The most bald cup is 2 to 3 millimeters long. The five petals are slightly shorter than the calyx.
The capsule fruit is pentadentate and a length of 2.5 to 3.5 mm up to slightly more than half of the cup.
Ecology
The Alps - Pearlwort is a herbaceous Chamaephyt or Hemikryptophyt.
Occurrence
The Alps - Pearlwort is a arctic - alpine Florenelement. It occurs mainly in the mountains of Europe and the Caucasus. It is also found in other parts of northern Eurasia, Greenland and North America to Mexico.
In central Europe, the Alps - Pearlwort thrives on low lime loam or clay soils, which may be peaty or humic also and that should be moist and reasonably rich in nitrogen.
In the Alps, it is scattered in front, in the Black Forest and the Bavarian Forest to find it rare. There it settled in the alpine climate Schneetälchen, lean grass, livestock inventories, fat meadows and spring swamps. It occurs insensitive.
System
The first publication was in 1753 under the name ( basionym ) Spergularia saginoides by Carl Linnaeus Species Plantarum, 1, p 441 The recombination to Sagina saginoides (L.) H.Karsten in 1882 by Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten in German flora. Pharmaceutisch - medicinische Botany ..., p 539 published. A homonym is Sagina saginoides Dalla Torre. Other synonyms for Sagina saginoides (L.) H.Karsten are: Sagina linnaei C.Presl, Alsine linnaei ( C.Presl ) EHLKrause, Alsine saginoides (L.) Crantz, Alsinella saginoides (L.) Greene, Phaloe saginoides (L. ) Dumort. , Sagina baumgartenii Simonk. , Sagina linnaei macrocarpa var ( Rchb. ) Beck, Sagina macrocarpa ( Rchb. ) Maly, Sagina micrantha ( Bunge) Fernald, Sagina procumbens L., Sagina saginoides subsp. macrocarpa ( Rchb. ) Soó, Sagina saginoides var hesperia Fernald, Sagina saginoides macrocarpa var ( Rchb. ) Moss Sagina saxatilis ( Wimm. ) Wimm. , Sagina spergella Fenzl, Spergella macrocarpa Rchb. , Spergella saginoides (L.) Rchb. , Spergella saxatilis ( Wimm. ) Schur, Spergula micrantha Bunge, Sagina saxatilis ( Wimmer ) Wimmer.
Worth mentioning is the bastard between Sagina procumbens and Sagina saginoides, who as Norman Pearlwort ( Sagina × normaniana Lagerh. ) Is known, and is often sown as discounts plant in cemeteries because he with its dense, moss -like cushions the advent of " weed " prevented.