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|accepted_name=Arenaria serpyllifolia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 423. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Thymeleaf sandwort;sabline á feuilles de serpolet
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Arenaria;Arenaria serpyllifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Arenaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Arenaria serpyllifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 51, 56
|treatment_page=page 55
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Taproots</b> filiform. <b>Stems</b> 1–100+, erect to ascending or sprawling, green, 3–40+ cm; internodes terete to ellipsoid, 2–8 times as long as leaves, dull, retrorsely pubescent throughout, sometimes also stipitate-glandular. <b>Leaves</b> often connate basally, with scarious or mostly herbaceous sheath 0.2–0.3 mm, petiolate (proximal leaves) or usually sessile; petiole 1–4 mm; blade 3–5 veined, elliptic to broadly ovate or rarely orbiculate, 2–7 × 1–4 mm, herbaceous, margins flat, herbaceous, dull, ciliate especially proximally, apex acute to acuminate, pustulate, sparsely minutely pubescent or glabrous; axillary leaf clusters absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, open, leafy, 3–50+-flowered cymes. <b>Pedicels</b> erect or ascending in fruit, 1–12 mm, retrorsely pubescent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals green, often prominently 3-veined, not keeled, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate (herbaceous portion narrowly elliptic to broadly lanceolate), 2–3 mm, to 4 mm in fruit, apex narrowly acute to acuminate, ± minutely pustulate, stipitate-glandular; petals oblong, 0.6–2.7 mm, 1/5–3/4 times as long as sepals, apex obtuse to rounded. <b>Capsules</b> loosely enclosed by calyx, ovoid to cylindric-ovoid, 3–3.5 mm, 4/5–11/5 times as long as sepals. <b>Seeds</b> 10–15, ashy black, reniform, plump, 0.4–0.6 mm, not shiny, with low-elongate, prominent tubercules.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Eurasia;Africa;introduced in Australia.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 3+ (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Variation in <i>Arenaria serpyllifolia</i> in the broad sense is treated in various ways. The two varieties recognized here have been treated also as subspecies (e.g., A. O. Chater and G. Halliday 1993) or species (e.g., M. N. Abuhadra 2000; B. Jonsell 2001). Jonsell admitted that accepting them as species is questionable; while the morphological differences are slight (see esp. Abuhadra), the ploidy-level difference (2n = 40 in <i></i></i>var.<i><i> serpyllifolia</i> vs. 2n = 20 in <i></i></i>var.<i><i> tenuior</i>) is important.</p>
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==Key==
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|1
|Capsules ovoid to ovoid-conic, broader at base; seeds 0.5-0.6 mm
|[[Arenaria serpyllifolia var. serpyllifolia|Arenaria serpyllifolia var. serpyllifolia]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Capsules cylindric to cylindric-ovoid, not significantly broader at base (walls nearly straight); seeds ca. 0.4 mm
|[[Arenaria serpyllifolia var. tenuior|Arenaria serpyllifolia var. tenuior]]
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name=Arenaria serpyllifolia
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|distribution=North America;Eurasia;Africa;introduced in Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_111.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Arenaria
|species=Arenaria serpyllifolia
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