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  • COMMON NAME: Sand Spurry
  • ARABIC: أم ثريب
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Spergularia diandra (Guss.) Boiss.
  • SYNONYMS: Arenaria marina
  • FAMILY: CARYOPHYLLACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Umm-Al-Quwain , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/spergularia_diandra.htm Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

Annual herb, glandular-pubescent above, 7-25 cm high. Stems many, erect or ascending. leaves 1-3 cm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, filform, mucronulate; stipules short, triangular, caducous cymes leafless, dichasially branched, many flowered. Sepals 2-3 mm long, oblong, obtuse, scarious-margined, glandular-puberulent. Petals pink, ovate shorter than calyx. Stamens 2-3. Capsule about as long or longer than calyx. Seeds triangular-obovate, brown, wingless, thick margined. 

Flowering from February to May.
Fields, gardens and roadsides.
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