Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Arenaria serpyllifolia
Common name
Thyme-leaved Sandwort
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Where found
Weed of disturbed ground. Ranges, tablelands, Western Slopes, and Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.30 m high, sometimes sprawling to prostrate. Plants rough to sticky hairy. Leaves opposite each other, 0.3–1 cm long, 2–6 mm wide, stalkless. Flowers white, 5–8 mm in diameter, with 5 petals. Flowering: spring and summer. Seed case oval to globular or urn-shaped, 4–5 mm long, swollen at the base, with curved sides.
Arenaria serpyllifolia subsp. serpyllifolia in Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Arenaria~serpyllifolia (accessed 3 January, 2021)
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