Sagina maritimaDon

sea pearlwort

WFO wfo-0000438539 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 maritima, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-09 / obs. 198323190
Sagina maritima, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. b Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189869168
Sagina maritima, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. c Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115650045
Sagina maritima, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. d Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35763976
Sagina maritima, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. e Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172962771
Sagina maritima, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198323246
Sagina maritima, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. g Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115650138
Sagina maritima, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. h Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35763924

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Native range 36 botanical countries

Regions where Sagina maritima is native: Algeria, Azores, Canary Is., Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Baltic States, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kriti, Netherlands, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeAlbaniaBaltic StatesBelgiumBulgariaCorseDenmarkFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIrelandItalyKritiNetherlandsNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalSiciliaSpainSwedenTürkiye-in-Europe AzoresCanary Is.BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Sagina maritima, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Baltic States BLT
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Denmark DEN
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Netherlands NET
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Azores AZO
Canary Is. CNY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Türkiye TUR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 14 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 maritima Jess.
  • Alsinella filiformis Bubani
  • Alsinella maritima Bubani
  • Sagina alpina Don ex Garry
  • Sagina carnosula Norman
  • Sagina debilis Jord.
  • Sagina densa Jord.
  • Sagina emporitana Sennen
  • Sagina filiformis Pourr. ex Lapeyr.
  • Sagina rodriguezii Willk.
  • Sagina setigera Bisch.
  • Sagina stricta Fr.
  • Sagina thiebautii Gand. ex C.Thiébaut
  • Sagina urceolata Viv.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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.