Spergularia bocconi

Boccone's sand-spurrey

Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Boccone's sand-spurrey is a naturalized annual found in the Klamath Ranges, central Sierra Nevada Foothills, Central Valley, Central Coast, southern California Coast, southern Channel Islands, and Mojave Desert in salt marshes, alkaline areas, and sandy soils at elevations below 400 meters. Flowering in spring, this delicate plant produces white or pink to rosy flowers with petals nestled among glandular-hairy branching clusters. Growing with slender stems less than 1 millimeter in diameter, it forms a compact and fragile structure. Its leaves are slightly fleshy with small, inconspicuous white to tan stipules, typically occurring in sparse 0-2 clusters per axil. The fruit is small, measuring 2.7 to 5.3 millimeters long, with light brown seeds that are minutely textured.

Habitat: Salt marshes, alkaline areas, sandy soils

Bloom period: Spring

Elevation: < 400 m

Bioregions: KR, c SNF, GV, CCo, SCo, s ChI, DMoj

California counties: San Diego, Los Angeles, Riverside, Fresno, Inyo, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Butte, Contra Costa, Marin, Merced, Monterey, Orange, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Tuolumne, Yolo, Kern, Solano, Imperial, Calaveras, Madera, Alameda, Colusa, Placer, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Sonoma, Tulare, San Benito, Sutter, Napa, Tehama, Glenn, Yuba, Humboldt, Mendocino, Shasta, Stanislaus

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.