| Plants : Caryophyllaceae | Ferns and Flowering Plants |
Description: A generally small annual or biennial plant with small leaves and white flowers of dry and freely-drained soils, gravel pits, walls, rock faces etc. Generally more slender, and less common, than the similar subspecies serpyllifolia. The two subspecies are separated by the shape of the seed capsules.
All names: Arenaria serpyllifolia ssp. leptoclados (Reichb.) Nyman; Arenaria leptoclados (Reichb.) Guss
Distribution Map from NBN: Arenaria serpyllifolia ssp. leptoclados at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.
iNaturalist: Arenaria serpyllifolia ssp. leptoclados at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.
| Hackney, P., 2026. Arenaria serpyllifolia ssp. leptoclados. (Reichb.) Nyman. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland. https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=3060. Accessed on 2026-11-02. |