Spergularia media

Flügelsamige Spurrey ( Spergularia media)

The Flügelsamige Spurrey ( Spergularia media) is a short-lived perennial Hemikryptophyt from the carnation family ( Caryophyllaceae ).

Occurrence

The Flügelsamige Spurrey has its main occurrence on wet-dry salt marshes and salt meadows plants. It prefers high salt mud or sand bottoms. Their natural range is littoral along the coasts of Europe and West Asia mostly in the temperate latitudes. In parts of southern Germany, the Flügelsamige is Spurrey on the Red List ( states of Saxony -Anhalt and Thuringia ), in North Rhine -Westphalia and Saarland, it is considered lost.

The Flügelsamige Spurrey is the Kennart the phytosociological order Glauco - Puccinellietalia, it grows in lawns Andel (Association Puccinellion maritimae ). They often occurs along with some representatives of the goosefoot.

Identifying

The Flügelsamige Spurrey is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches heights of growth of 5 to 45 cm and has a prostrate to ascending stems, which is richly branched. It has a taproot, with which they can survive the winter. Your fleshy, semi- terete leaves are up to 4 cm long and are linear in shape. Your lanceolate stipules are provided with a small skin edge.

The Flügelsamige Spurrey flowers from July to September. The greenish sepals are 5-6 mm long and have a skin edge. The petals are about as long as the calyx, pale pink in color and gradually towards the base until becoming purple white. In each flower there are usually ten stamens and three pen.

The 6 to 12 mm long mature fruit capsules are twice as long as the calyx, they jump with their three flaps on and dismiss this characteristic seeds, which have a wide white edge of wing. With this feature the Flügelsamige Spurrey can best be distinguished from the other scales Mieren.