Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Sea Pearlwort, Sagina maritima, Mongán mara
Photographs: Mizen Head, Co. Cork

Sea Pearlwort
Sagina maritima
Mongán mara
Family: Caryophyllaceae

Flowering time: May-August. Annual. Native.

Inconspicuous flowers with 4 sepals, but petals are often very tiny or completely absent. The blunt, fleshy, dark green leaves usually without bristly points. Growth more/less erect or spreading. Height 3-10cm

Found on bare ground around Irish coasts on rocks, walls, waste ground, shingle, dune-slacks, cliff-tops and beside tracks.

Sea Pearlwort, Sagina maritima, Mongán mara

Sea Pearlwort, Sagina maritima, Mongán mara

Sea Pearlwort, Sagina maritima, Mongán mara
Sea Pearlwort, Sagina maritima, Mongán mara

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