Spergularia rubra

Red Spurrey ( Spergularia rubra)

The Red Spurrey ( Spergularia rubra ), also called field - Spurrey, a plant belonging to the Caryophyllaceae family is ( Caryophyllaceae ).

Appearance

This year, some of them perennial herbaceous plant that reaches a height of about 4 to 15 cm. The stem is covered with short, in the upper part also glandular. The leaves are linear - filiform, mucronate, somewhat fleshy and flat on both sides. The silver- white shiny side leaves are ovate - lanceolate and prolonged form.

The sepals are lanceolate, nerveless and usually shorter than 4 mm. You are breithäutig on the edge. The petals are rose-red. The flower has ten stamens. It blooms from May to September.

The triangular- ovate capsule fruit is about as long as the calyx. The seeds are gray-brown, almost triangular, feinrunzelig, wingless and have a beaded edge.

Ecology

The plant is monoecious with female flowers and hermaphrodite or dioecious with female flowers and other plants with hermaphrodite flowers, so it is gynomonodiözisch and gynodiözisch. The flowers are homogam to weakly vormännlich. Pollinators are flies; but before pollination often occurs only self-pollination. Bloom time is from May to September. The flowers are not always open; according to the observations of Oskar von Kirchner they are open only in bright weather and during the period from 9-15 clock.

The fruits are 3- klappig opening scattering capsules that act as wind spreader for sometimes winged, only up to 0.6 mm long, long-lived seeds. In addition, will also Klebausbreitung and people spread ( by abducted Earth with vehicles ) instead. Fruit ripening from July to October.

Dissemination

Habitat requirements

The Red Spurrey grows along roads, in fields, on shots, and on the banks. She prefers more or less fresh, nutrient-rich, base- and lime-free, sandy loam and clay soils. It is a shallow roots and a soil compaction and acidification indicator.

Popularization

Spergularia rubra occurs throughout the temperate and subtropical area of ​​the Northern Hemisphere. She is a Eurasian- subozeanisches Florenelement. In Austria it is scattered before until rare, in Switzerland it is to locate generally scattered.

Distribution in Germany

The Red Spurrey is common in Germany, but in the south - as in Switzerland and in Austria - rare, but comes from the plains to the central mountain areas before.