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46.) CARYOPHYLLACEAE - Pink family

CARYOPHYLLACEAE - Pink family

ARENARIA L.

  • Arenaria serpyllifolia L. (Thyme-leaved Sandwort) / General

  • ssp. serpyllifolia

  • ssp. lloydii (Jord.) Bonnier (Thyme-leaved Sandwort) Coasts Very Rare Was recorded from Sand Point.

  • Arenaria leptoclados (Rchb.) Guss. (A. serpyllifolia L. ssp. leptoclados (Rchb.) Nyman) (Slender Sandwort) / General

MOEHRINGIA L.

  • Moehringia trinervia (L.) Clairv. (Three-nerved Sandwort) / Woodland

HONCKENYA Ehrh.

  • Honckenya peploides (L.) Ehrh. (Sea Sandwort) / Coasts

SABULINA Rchb.

  • Sabulina tenuifolia (L.) Rchb. (Minuartia hybrida (Vill.) Schischk.) (Fine-leaved Sandwort) General

STELLARIA L.

  • Stellaria nemorum L. ssp. nemorum (Wood Stitchwort) Woodland Recorded near Clutton, North Somerset in 2000 by ?. Also mentioned in a list in 'History of Bitton' written by H.N. Ellacombe about 1870 (Riddelsdell, 1948) and recorded in two locations to the north-east of the region in 1980s and 1990s by ? [BSBI records].

[I seem to remember David saying he found it somewhere?]

  • Stellaria media (L.) Vill. (Common Chickweed) / General

  • Stellaria pallida (Dumort.) Crép. (Lesser Chickweed) / General

  • Stellaria neglecta Weihe (Greater Chickweed) / Woodland

  • Stellaria holostea L. (Greater Stitchwort) / Woodland

  • Stellaria palustris Ehrh. ex Hoffm. (Marsh Stitchwort) 1948 / - re-found by myself at Lawrence Weston Moor Wetland

  • Stellaria graminea L. (Lesser Stitchwort) / Grassland

  • Stellaria alsine Grimm (Stellaria uliginosa Murray) (Bog Stitchwort) - Wetland

  • Stellaria aquatica (L.) Scop. (Myosoton aquaticum (L.) Moench) (Water Chickweed) /- Wetland

CERASTIUM L.

  • Cerastium arvense L. (Field Mouse-ear) Grassland

  • Cerastium tomentosum L. (Snow-in-summer) / General

  • Cerastium fontanum Baumg. (ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet and ssp. holosteoides (Fr.) Salman, Ommering & de. Voogd. - Stace, NBN) (Common Mouse-ear) / General

  • Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. (Sticky Mouse-ear) / General

  • Cerastium dichotomum L. (Forked Mouse-ear, Forked Chickweed)

  • Cerastium diffusum Pers. (Sea Mouse-ear) Coasts

  • Cerastium pumilum Curtis (Dwarf Mouse-ear) / General

  • Cerastium semidecandrum L. (Little Mouse-ear) / General

MOENCHIA Ehrh.

  • Moenchia erecta (L.) P. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb. (Upright Chickweed) Grassland

SAGINA L.

  • Sagina nodosa (L.) Fenzl (Knotted Pearlwort) Wetland

  • Sagina procumbens L. (Procumbent Pearlwort) / General

  • Sagina apetala Ard. (Sagina apetala Ard. ssp. apetala (Annual Pearlwort) / General

  • Sagina filicaulis Jord. (Sagina apetala Ard. ssp. erecta F. Herm.) (Slender Pearlwort) / General

[Records of S. apetala ssp. filicaulis need adding here]

  • Sagina maritima Don (Sea Pearlwort) / Coasts

SCLERANTHUS L.

  • Scleranthus perennis L. (ssp. prostratus P.D. Sell.?) (Perennial Knawel) 1896 General

  • Scleranthus annuus L. ssp. annuus (Annual Knawel) Grassland Casual on a railway siding at Ashley Hill in 1928 by C.I. Sandwith.

CORRIGIOLA L.

  • Corrigiola litoralis L. (Strapwort) 1896 General

HERNIARIA L.

  • Herniaria glabra L. (Smooth Rupturewort) Coasts

  • Herniaria hirsuta L. (Hairy Rupturewort) 1914 General recorded on waste ground at St. Philip's Marsh in 1904 (White, 1912); there again in 1915 by C.I. Sandwith and T.H. Green; and on a tip at South Portishead in 1914 by C.I. Sandwith.

PARONYCHIA Mill.

  • Paronychia polygonifolia (Vill.) DC. (Polygon-leaved Nailwort, Many Angle-leaved Nailwort - name translated) - [Sandwith, 1932] General A native of southern Europe; recorded at a fowl-run on Wee Lane [now Glenfrome Road], Bristol in 1922 by C.I. Sandwith.

POLYCARPON L.

  • Polycarpon tetraphyllum (L.) L. var. tetraphyllum (Four-leaved Allseed) /- Coasts

SPERGULA L.

  • Spergula arvensis L. (ssp. arvensis) (Corn Spurrey) /- General Widespread in arable settings. Much declined.

  • var. arvensis Presumed to be the widespread plant.

[BSBI record of var. vulgaris should be combined here.]

  • var. sativa (Boenn.) Mert. & W.D.J. Koch - [Sandwith, 1932 as S. sativa] General A more densely glandular plant than var. arvensis and with seeds lacking papillae, was recorded at Ashton Gate in 1921 by C.I. Sandwith.

SPERGULARIA (Pers.) J. & C. Presl

  • Spergularia rupicola Lebel ex Le Jol. (Rock Sea-spurrey) /- Coasts

  • Spergularia media (L.) C. Presl (Greater Sea-spurrey) / Coasts

  • Spergularia marina (L.) Besser (Lesser Sea-spurrey) / Coasts

  • Spergularia rubra (L.) J. & C. Presl (Sand Spurrey) Grassland

  • Spergularia purpurea (Pers.) G. Don (Purple Sand-spurrey) - [Sandwith, 1932 as S. longipes] General

AGROSTEMMA L.

  • Agrostemma githago L. (Corn Cockle) / General

SILENE L.

  • Silene behen L. (Hairless Catchfly) 1941 General

  • Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke ssp. vulgaris (Bladder Campion) / Grassland

  • Silene uniflora Roth (Sea Campion) /- Coasts

  • Silene baccifera (L.) Roth (Cucubalus baccifer L.) (Berry Catchfly) 1978 General

  • Silene armeria L. (Sweet-William Catchfly) General

  • Silene muscipula L. (ssp. muscipula) (South-western Catchfly - Stace) 1932 General

  • Silene stricta L. (Upright Catchfly?, Strict Catchfly? - find common name!) 1922 General

  • Silene coniflora Nees ex Otth (Multi-nerved Catchfly, Coneflower Catchfly?) 1937 General

  • Silene noctiflora L. (Night-flowering Catchfly) General

  • Silene latifolia Poir. (White Campion) / General

  • ssp. alba (Mill.) Greuter & Burdet

  • ssp. latifolia - [Sandwith, 1932 as Lychnis macrocarpa & Glos. Fl. as Melandrium divaricatum] General

  • Silene latifolia x S. dioica = S. x hampeana Meusel & K. Werner (Hybrid Campion) / General

  • Silene dioica (L.) Clairv. (ssp. dioica) var. dioica (Red Campion) / General

  • Silene coeli-rosa (L.) Godr. (Rose-of-heaven) 1967 General

  • Silene pendula L. (Nodding Catchfly) 1979 General

  • Silene gallica L. (var. gallica) (Small-flowered Catchfly) General

  • Silene dichotoma Ehrh. (Forked Catchfly) 1932 General

  • Silene lydia Boiss. (Lydia Catchfly?) - [Sandwith, 1932] General

  • Silene conica L. (Sand Catchfly) 1906 General

  • Silene conoidea L. (Large Sand Catchfly) 1906 General

  • Silene subconica Friv. (S. conica L. ssp. subconica (Friv.) Gavioli) (Small Sand Catchfly? - find common name!) 1939 General

  • Silene coronaria (L.) Clairv. (Lychnis coronaria (L.) Desr.) (Rose Campion) / General

  • Silene flos-cuculi (L.) Clairv. (Lychnis flos-cuculi L.) (Ragged Robin) / Wetland

SAPONARIA L.

  • Saponaria officinalis L. (Soapwort) / General

VACCARIA Wolf

  • Vaccaria hispanica (Mill.) Rauschert (Gypsophila vaccaria (L.) Sm.) (Cowherb) General [Brist. Fl. as Saponaria vaccaria & Sandwith, 1932 as Vaccaria pyramidata] General

GYPSOPHILA L.

  • Gypsophila paniculata L. (Baby's-breath) - [Brist. Fl.] General

  • Gypsophila elegans M. Bieb. (Annual Baby's-breath) 1922 General

  • Gypsophila muralis L. (Psammophiliella muralis (L.) Ikonn.) (Annual Gypsophila, Cushion Baby's-breath, Low Baby's-breath, Wall Baby's-breath?) - [Sandwith, 1932] General

  • Gypsophila acutifolia Steven ex Spreng. (Sharpleaf Baby's-breath) 1952 General

  • Gypsophila pilosa Huds. (var. pilosa) (Turkish Baby's-breath) 1911 General

PETRORHAGIA (Ser. ex DC.) Link

  • Petrorhagia prolifera (L.) P.W. Ball & Heywood (Proliferous Pink) 1889 General

  • Petrorhagia dubia (Raf.) G. López & Romo (P. velutina (Guss.) P.W. Ball & Heywood) (Hayling Island Pink) 1902 General

DIANTHUS L.

  • Dianthus gratianopolitanus Vill. (Cheddar Pink) / General

  • Dianthus plumarius L. (ssp. plumarius) (Pink) 1840 General - BRLSI

  • Dianthus deltoides L. (Maiden Pink) 1979 Grassland

  • Dianthus barbatus L. (Sweet William) / General

  • Dianthus armeria L. (Deptford Pink) 1940 General

List:

  • Arenaria serpyllifolia L. ssp. serpyllifolia (Thyme-leaved Sandwort) / General
  • Arenaria serpyllifolia L. ssp. lloydii (Jord.) Bonnier (Thyme-leaved Sandwort) Coasts - recorded from Sand Point
  • Arenaria leptoclados (Rchb.) Guss. (Stace) Arenaria serpyllifolia L. ssp. leptoclados (Rchb.) Nyman (NBN) (Slender Sandwort) / General
  • Moehringia trinervia (L.) Clairv. (Three-nerved Sandwort) / Woodland
  • Honckenya peploides (L.) Ehrh. (Sea Sandwort) / Coasts
  • Sabulina tenuifolia (L.) Rchb. (Stace) Minuartia hybrida (Vill.) Schischk. (NBN) (Fine-leaved Sandwort) General
  • Stellaria nemorum L. ssp. nemorum (Wood Stitchwort) Woodland
  • Stellaria media (L.) Vill. (Common Chickweed) / General
  • Stellaria pallida (Dumort.) Crép. (Lesser Chickweed) / General
  • Stellaria neglecta Weihe (Greater Chickweed) / Woodland
  • Stellaria holostea L. (Greater Stitchwort) / Woodland
  • Stellaria palustris Ehrh. ex Hoffm. (Marsh Stitchwort) 1948 / - re-found by myself at Lawrence Weston Moor Wetland
  • Stellaria graminea L. (Lesser Stitchwort) / Grassland
  • Stellaria alsine Grimm (Stace) Stellaria uliginosa Murray (NBN) (Bog Stitchwort) - Wetland
  • Stellaria aquatica (L.) Scop. (Stace) Myosoton aquaticum (L.) Moench (NBN) (Water Chickweed) /- Wetland
  • Cerastium arvense L. (Field Mouse-ear) Grassland
  • Cerastium tomentosum L. (Snow-in-summer) / General
  • Cerastium fontanum Baumg. (ssp. vulgare (Hartm.) Greuter & Burdet and ssp. holosteoides (Fr.) Salman, Ommering & de. Voogd. - Stace, NBN) (Common Mouse-ear) / General
  • Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. (Sticky Mouse-ear) / General
  • Cerastium dichotomum L. (Forked Mouse-ear, Forked Chickweed - GBIF)
  • Cerastium diffusum Pers. (Sea Mouse-ear) Coasts
  • Cerastium pumilum Curtis (Dwarf Mouse-ear) / General
  • Cerastium semidecandrum L. (Little Mouse-ear) / General
  • Moenchia erecta (L.) P. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb. (Upright Chickweed) Grassland
  • Sagina nodosa (L.) Fenzl (Knotted Pearlwort) Wetland
  • Sagina procumbens L. (Procumbent Pearlwort) / General
  • Sagina apetala Ard. (Stace) Sagina apetala Ard. ssp. apetala (Annual Pearlwort) / General
  • Sagina filicaulis Jord. (Stace) Sagina apetala Ard. ssp. erecta F. Herm. (Slender Pearlwort - Stace, Fringed Pearlwort - NBN) / General
  • Sagina maritima Don (Sea Pearlwort) / Coasts
  • Scleranthus perennis L. (ssp. prostratus P.D. Sell.? - Stace, NBN, Kew) (Perennial Knawel) 1896 General
  • Scleranthus annuus L. ssp. annuus (Annual Knawel) Grassland
  • Corrigiola litoralis L. (Strapwort) 1896 General
  • Herniaria glabra L. (Smooth Rupturewort) Coasts
  • Herniaria hirsuta L. (Hairy Rupturewort) 1914 General
  • Paronychia polygonifolia (Vill.) DC. (Polygon-leaved Nailwort, Many Angle-leaved Nailwort - name translated) - [Sandwith, 1932] General
  • Polycarpon tetraphyllum (L.) L. (var. tetraphyllum - NBN, Stace) (Four-leaved Allseed) /- Coasts
  • Spergula arvensis L. (var. arvensis - Stace, NBN, var. sativa (Boenn.) Mert. & W.D.J. Koch? - Stace, NBN (var. nana E.F. Linton - Stace, var. maxima (Weihe) Mert. & W.D.J. Koch - Stace, var. vulgaris (Boenn.) Rohrb. - NBN - hardly worth recognition - Stace) (Corn Spurrey) - worldwide ours is ssp. arvensis /- General
  • Spergula arvensis L. ssp. arvensis var. sativa (Boenn.) Mert. & W.D.J. Koch (Corn Spurrey) - [Sandwith, 1932 as S. sativa] General
  • Spergularia rupicola Lebel ex Le Jol. (Rock Sea-spurrey) /- Coasts
  • Spergularia media (L.) C. Presl (Greater Sea-spurrey) / Coasts
  • Spergularia marina (L.) Besser (Lesser Sea-spurrey) / Coasts
  • Spergularia rubra (L.) J. & C. Presl (Sand Spurrey) Grassland
  • Spergularia purpurea (Pers.) G. Don (Purple Sand-spurrey - GBIF) - [Sandwith, 1932 as S. longipes] General
  • Agrostemma githago L. (Corn Cockle) / General
  • Silene behen L. (Hairless Catchfly - GBIF) 1941 General
  • Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke ssp. vulgaris (Bladder Campion) / Grassland
  • Silene uniflora Roth (Sea Campion) /- Coasts
  • Silene baccifera (L.) Roth (Stace, NBN, Kew) Cucubalus baccifer L. (Berry Catchfly) 1978 General
  • Silene armeria L. (Sweet-William Catchfly) General
  • Silene muscipula L. (ssp. muscipula - Kew) (South-western Catchfly - Stace) 1932 General
  • Silene stricta L. (Upright Catchfly?, Strict Catchfly? - find common name!) 1922 General
  • Silene coniflora Nees ex Otth (Multi-nerved Catchfly - The Jepson Herbarium, Coneflower Catchfly?) 1937 General
  • Silene noctiflora L. (Night-flowering Catchfly) General
  • Silene latifolia Poir. (ssp. alba (Mill.) Greuter & Burdet - Stace) (White Campion) / General
  • Silene latifolia Poir. ssp. latifolia (White Campion) - [Sandwith, 1932 as Lychnis macrocarpa & Glos. Fl. as Melandrium divaricatum] General
  • Silene latifolia x S. dioica = S. x hampeana Meusel & K. Werner (Hybrid Campion - NBN) / General
  • Silene dioica (L.) Clairv. (ssp. dioica - Kew) (var. dioica - Stace) (Red Campion) / General
  • Silene coeli-rosa (L.) Godr. (Rose-of-heaven) 1967 General
  • Silene pendula L. (Nodding Catchfly) 1979 General
  • Silene gallica L. (var. gallica - Kew, GBIF) (Small-flowered Catchfly) General
  • Silene dichotoma Ehrh. (Forked Catchfly) 1932 General
  • Silene lydia Boiss. (Lydia Catchfly?) - [Sandwith, 1932] General
  • Silene conica L. (Sand Catchfly) 1906 General
  • Silene conoidea L. (Large Sand Catchfly - Wikipedia) 1906 General
  • Silene subconica Friv. (Kew, EDIT) Silene conica L. ssp. subconica (Friv.) Gavioli (old name) (Small Sand Catchfly? - find common name!) 1939 General
  • Silene coronaria (L.) Clairv. (Stace) Lychnis coronaria (L.) Desr. (old name) (Rose Campion) / General
  • Silene flos-cuculi (L.) Clairv. (Stace) Lychnis flos-cuculi L. (old name) (Ragged Robin) / Wetland
  • Saponaria officinalis L. (Soapwort) / General
  • Vaccaria hispanica (Mill.) Rauschert (Gypsophila vaccaria (L.) Sm. - Kew, GBIF) (Cowherb) General [Brist. Fl. as Saponaria vaccaria & Sandwith, 1932 as Vaccaria pyramidata] General
  • Gypsophila paniculata L. (Baby's-breath) - [Brist. Fl.] General
  • Gypsophila elegans M. Bieb. (Annual Baby's-breath) 1922 General
  • Gypsophila muralis L. (Stace) (Psammophiliella muralis (L.) Ikonn. - Kew, GBIF) (Annual Gypsophila - GBIF, Cushion Baby's-breath, Low Baby's-breath - Wikipedia, Wall Baby's-breath?) - [Sandwith, 1932] General
  • Gypsophila acutifolia Steven ex Spreng. (Sharpleaf Baby's-breath - Wikipedia) 1952 General
  • Gypsophila pilosa Huds. (var. pilosa - Kew) (Turkish Baby's-breath - Wikipedia, GBIF) 1911 General
  • Petrorhagia prolifera (L.) P.W. Ball & Heywood (Proliferous Pink) 1889 General
  • Petrorhagia dubia (Raf.) G. López & Romo (Stace, NBN, Kew) Petrorhagia velutina (Guss.) P.W. Ball & Heywood (old name) (Hairy Pink - NBN, Hayling Island Pink - Stace) 1902 General
  • Dianthus gratianopolitanus Vill. (Cheddar Pink) / General
  • Dianthus plumarius L. (ssp. plumarius - Kew, GBIF) (Pink) 1840 General - BRLSI
  • Dianthus deltoides L. (Maiden Pink) 1979 Grassland
  • Dianthus barbatus L. (Sweet William) / General
  • Dianthus armeria L. (Deptford Pink) 1940 General

Species to add:

  • Arenaria serpyllifolia L. ssp. lloydii (Jord.) Bonnier (Thyme-leaved Sandwort) - recorded from Sand Point /
  • Stellaria nemorum L. ssp. nemorum (Wood Stitchwort)
  • Cerastium dichotomum L. (Forked Mouse-ear, Forked Chickweed - GBIF) /
  • Paronychia polygonifolia (Vill.) DC. (Polygon-leaved Nailwort, Many Angle-leaved Nailwort - name translated) - [Sandwith, 1932] /
  • Spergula arvensis L. ssp. arvensis var. sativa (Boenn.) Mert. & W.D.J. Koch (Corn Spurrey) - [Sandwith, 1932 as S. sativa] /
  • Spergularia purpurea (Pers.) G. Don (Purple Sand-spurrey - GBIF) - [Sandwith, 1932 as S. longipes] /
  • Silene latifolia Poir. ssp. latifolia (White Campion) - [Sandwith, 1932 as Lychnis macrocarpa & Glos. Fl. as Melandrium divaricatum] /
  • Silene lydia Boiss. (Lydia Catchfly?) - [Sandwith, 1932] /
  • Gypsophila paniculata L. (Baby's-breath) - [Brist. Fl.] /
  • Gypsophila muralis L. (Stace) (Psammophiliella muralis (L.) Ikonn. - Kew, GBIF) (Annual Gypsophila - GBIF, Cushion Baby's-breath, Low Baby's-breath - Wikipedia, Wall Baby's-breath?) - [Sandwith, 1932] /