Spergularia rubraJ.Presl & C.Presl

Red Sand Spurrey

WFO wfo-0000436420 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Spergularia rubra, photographed by Поляков Александр
fig. a Поляков Александр, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205805696
Spergularia rubra, photographed by evgeniq_benihanov
fig. b evgeniq_benihanov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205743334
Spergularia rubra, photographed by Ian Manning
fig. c Ian Manning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205160248
Spergularia rubra, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. d Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205823274
Spergularia rubra, photographed by Ilkka Kaita-aho
fig. e Ilkka Kaita-aho, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205110695
Spergularia rubra, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. f Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202758635
Spergularia rubra, photographed by Mary K. Hanson
fig. g Mary K. Hanson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201439692
Spergularia rubra, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. h Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204833740

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Flowering n = 2,024 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 2,024 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 20 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 alpina (Boiss.) Willk.
  • Alsine radicans (C.Presl) Guss.
  • Alsine rubra (L.) Crantz
  • Arenaria campestris L.
  • Arenaria campestris All.
  • Arenaria membranacea Gaterau
  • Arenaria radicans (C.Presl) Spreng.
  • Arenaria rubra L.
  • Arenaria rubra var. campestris L.
  • Arenaria rubra var. canadensis Eaton
  • Corion rubrum (L.) N.E.Br.
  • Fasciculus ruber Dulac
  • Lepigonum radicans (C.Presl) Kindb.
  • Lepigonum rubrum Wahlb.
  • Melargyra rubra Raf.
  • Spergula radicans (C.Presl) D.Dietr.
  • Spergularia campestris Asch.
  • Spergularia radicans C.Presl
  • Stipularia rubra (L.) Haw.
  • Tissa rubra (L.) Britton

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.