Sagina apetala

Kronblattloses Pearlwort ( Sagina apetala )

The Kronblattlose Pearlwort or Eyelash Pearlwort, Sagina apetala heard within the Caryophyllaceae family and the subfamily Alsinoideae to the genus Sagina.

Description

The Kronblattlose Pearlwort is a 3-10 cm high, annual, dark green plant. The leaves are abundant ciliate (sometimes glandular ).

The flower stalks are nodding after flowering, then up again, the sepals are the mature, elongated fruit, and are nearly as long as the egg-shaped capsule that two outer sepals are pointed.

The flowering period extends from May to September.

Locations, distribution and threat in Central Europe

The Kronblattlose Pearlwort needs moist, low lime, sandy loam soil, which should be well supplied with nitrogen, however.

It colonized pavement joints, but also fresh fallow in fields and wasteland. It comes mainly in warmer regions before with lime- rock, but lacking in many areas in the lowlands west of the Elbe and in the middle and higher elevations of the mountains, the Alps and in the foothills. At its locations it occurs everywhere but only rarely.

Modern forms of arable order as well as the increasing asphalting especially in some of the small villages have made ​​the Kronblattlosen Pearlwort impossible survival; that's why it has disappeared locally.