Spergularia macrotheca

Sticky sand-spurrey, Sticky Sand-Spurrey

Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Sticky sand-spurrey is a California native perennial found in coastal and coastal mountain ranges in sandy or rocky habitats near the coast. Flowering from April to August, this plant produces white to pink or rosy flowers with delicate petals in small clusters. Growing with stout stems 8 to 30 centimeters tall and fleshy leaves, it has a strongly perennial habit with distinctive axillary leaf clusters. Its leaves are fleshy with conspicuous white to tan stipules 4.5 to 11 millimeters long, each with a long-acuminate tip. The fruit is 4.6 to 10 millimeters long, bearing reddish-brown seeds with unique worm-like or rounded surface textures.

California counties: San Luis Obispo, San Diego, Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Colusa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Kern, Marin, Monterey, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Mateo, Sonoma, Yolo, Kings, Contra Costa, Mendocino, Alameda, Tulare, San Benito, Solano, Glenn, Fresno

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