Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Arenaria leptoclados
Common name
Lesser thyme-leaved sandwort
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Where found
Weed in sandy soils and of rocky sites. Widespread but not common.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.3 m high. Plants rough to sticky hairy. Leaves opposite each other, 0.2–0.8 cm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, stalkless, occasionally stalked. Flowers 2.5–5 mm in diameter, with white 5 petals, shorter than the sepals, in open clusters. Flowering: late winter to summer. Seed case oblong- conical, only slightly widened at the base.
PlantNET description with line drawings: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Arenaria~leptoclados (accessed 3 January, 2021)
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