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Scientific name:

Herniaria glabra

Vernacular name:

Rupturewort, Smooth


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Smooth Rupturewort

Scientific name: Herniaria glabra L.

Diagnostic features
Annual to perennial with numerous procumbent branched stems to 30cm.
Stems usually hairy all round, not or slightly woody at base.
Fruit acute to subacute, distinctly exceeding sepals.
Seeds c.0.5-0.6mm.

Chromosome number: 2n=18.

Habitat
Native; dry sandy ground.

Distribution
East England, extinct or rare casual elsewhere in Britain and Ireland.

This species is keyed out on Page 2109 in the Text Key.

Herniaria glabra (Rupturewort, Smooth)
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