Subsp. maritima (With.) Ä. & D. Love , Bot. Not. 114: 52 (1961) Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae Tutin, T. G. Heywood, V. H. Burges, N. A. Moore, D. M. Valentine, D. H. Walters, S. M. Webb, D. A. 4XCL4 (With.) A. & D. Love A. & D. Love With. [247,1101,2250,2296] Magnoliopsida Caryophyllaceae Silene GBIF Plantae Caryophyllales 192 169 Tracheophyta subSpecies vulgaris maritima   Plant often rather diffuse, glabrous, glaucous; stems up to 25 cm, branched. Leaves 0-5-2(-4) x 0-2-0-7 cm, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, not usually crowded. Flowers solitary or 2-4 together; bracts thick and more or less herbaceous. Capsule 6-9 mm, with wide neck and patent or deflexed teeth; carpophore 3-3-5 mm. In= 24. Usually on coastal rocks or shingle. Coasts o f W. Europe, from Açores and Spain to Murmansk.  Subcaespitose plants from Iceland with small, very glaucous, imbricate ovate-lanceolate to subspathulate leaves and usually 1- to 2-flowered stems have been described as var. islandicaÄ. & D. Love.