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|accepted_name=Sagina caespitosa
|accepted_authority=(J. Vahl) Lange in H. J. Rink
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. J. Rink, Grønland
|place=2: 133. 1857
|year=1857
}}
|common_names=Sagine cespiteuse
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria caespitosa
|authority=J. Vahl
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sagina nivalis var. caespitosa
|authority=(J. Vahl) B. Boivin
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Spergella caespitosa
|authority=(J. Vahl) Á. Löve & D. Löve
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Sagina;Sagina caespitosa
|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>[[Sagina]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sagina caespitosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 141
|treatment_page=page 144
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, forming small mats or cushions, glandular-pubescent or glabrous. <b>Stems</b> ascending to spreading, frequently purple tinged, many-branched, not filiform. <b>Leaves</b>: axillary fascicles absent; basal not in primary rosettes, secondary rosettes usually present, blade linear to linear-subulate, 2–13 mm, not fleshy, apex apiculate to acute, glabrous; cauline connate basally, forming shallow, often purplish, scarious cup, blade with frequently conspicuous midvein, subulate, 3–9(–12) mm, becoming shorter toward apex, not fleshy, apex apiculate to acute, glabrous. <b>Pedicels</b> filiform, glandular-pubescent, rarely glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> terminal, 5-merous or 4- and 5-merous; calyx base glandular-pubescent or glabrous; sepals broadly ovate to lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm, hyaline margins usually purple tinged, at least at apex, apex obtuse to somewhat acute, glandular-pubescent or glabrous, remaining appressed after capsule dehiscence; petals elliptic to narrowly obovate, 2.5–3 mm, longer than or seldom equaling sepals; stamens 8 or 10. <b>Capsules</b> 3–3.5 mm, exceeding sepals, dehiscing to base. <b>Seeds</b> brown, obliquely triangular with abaxial groove, 0.5 mm, lateral surfaces frequently with elongate ridges, abaxial surface appearing smooth to pebbled.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid-late summer.
|habitat=Wet sands and gravels of shorelines and stream margins, wet mossy places, dry rocky barrens, gravelly hillocks
|elevation=0-1300 m
|distribution=Greenland;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;Nunavut;Que.;arctic Europe.
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name=Sagina caespitosa
|author=
|authority=(J. Vahl) Lange in H. J. Rink
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Sagina nivalis var. caespitosa;Spergella caespitosa
|basionyms=Arenaria caespitosa
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering mid-late summer.
|habitat=Wet sands and gravels of shorelines and stream margins, wet mossy places, dry rocky barrens, gravelly hillocks
|elevation=0-1300 m
|distribution=Greenland;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;Nunavut;Que.;arctic Europe.
|reference=None
|publication title=in H. J. Rink, Grønland
|publication year=1857
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Sagina
|species=Sagina caespitosa
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