Spergularia rupicola, Lebel ex Le Jolis

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 155

3. S. rupicola Lebel ex Le Jolis , Mém. Soc. Nat. Sci. Cherbourg 7: 274 (1860)

( S. lebeliana Rouy ).

Perennial; stems 5-35 cm, robust, somewhat woody below, often glandular-hairy throughout. Leaves narrowly linear, mucronate; stipules ovate-triangular, acuminate, somewhat silvery. Sepals 4-4- 5 mm; petals uniformly pink, about equalling the sepals; stamens 10. Capsule 4-5-7 mm, ovoid, equalling or somewhat exceeding the sepals. Seeds 0 -5-0- 7 mm, dark brown, unwinged, regularly tuberculate. 2« = 36. Rocky places by the sea. Atlantic coasts of Europe, northwards to c. 58° N. in Scotland. Br Ga Hb Hs Lu.