Sagina alexandraeIamonico

awl-leaf pearlwort

WFO wfo-1000085716 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Sagina alexandrae, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. a Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-17 / obs. 158102204
Sagina alexandrae, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. b Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187511984
Sagina alexandrae, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158102149
Sagina alexandrae, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. d Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187511962
Sagina alexandrae, photographed by Michael D. Pirie
fig. e Michael D. Pirie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92140569
Sagina alexandrae, photographed by naturalist charlie
fig. f naturalist charlie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2346605
Sagina alexandrae, photographed by Michael D. Pirie
fig. g Michael D. Pirie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92140618
Sagina alexandrae, photographed by Michael D. Pirie
fig. h Michael D. Pirie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145348335

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alsine subulata (Sw.) E.H.L.Krause
  • Phaloe subulata (Sw.) Dumort.
  • Sagina acicularis hort. ex E.Vilm.
  • Sagina subulata (Sw.) C.Presl
  • Sagina subulata var. subulata
  • Spergella subulata (Sw.) Rchb.
  • Spergula subulata Sw.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol SASU5. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.