Spergularia villosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name hairy sandspurry. It is native to southern South America, and it is known in the southwestern United States and Baja California as an introduced species and casual weed. It grows in a wide variety of habitat types. It is a small perennial herb producing a sprawling stem up to 30 centimeters (12 in) long with a woody base. It is coated in glandular hairs. The leaves are generally linear in shape and measure a few centimeters long. They are accompanied by dull white lance-shaped stipules. The flowers have hairy, glandular sepals and five oval whitish petals.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Hairy sandspurry being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Spergularia macrotheca
- Spergularia rupestris
- Spergularia media
- Spergularia bocconei
- Spergularia tasmanica
- Spergularia flaccida
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- Genus
- Spergularia
- Species
- Spergularia villosa
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