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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Spergula pentandra
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 440. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Wingstem spurrey
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae;Spergula;Spergula pentandra
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Spergula]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Spergula pentandra]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 15
|treatment_page=page 16
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>glabrous or moderately pubescent. <b>Stems</b> often branched proximally, 5–30 cm. <b>Leaf</b> blades usually flat, 0.5–1.5 cm, usually not channeled abaxially. <b>Pedicels</b> erect to ascending, spreading or, sometimes, reflexed in fruit, not secund. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 2.5–4 mm; petals ± lanceolate, 3/4–7/8 times as long as sepals in flower, apex acute to acuminate; stamens usually 5. <b>Capsule</b> valves 4–5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> winged, lenticular, 0.6–0.9 mm wide, surface minutely roughened or obscurely tuberculate (50×), papillae absent or relatively few in marginal ring; wings usually white, sometimes slightly tannish, 0.4–0.6 mm wide. <b>2n</b> = 18 (Europe).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Sandy fields, other disturbed areas
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.C.;Va.;Europe;sw Asia;nw Africa;introduced in Australia.
|discussion=<p><i>Spergula pentandra</i> was first collected in North America in 1956; see D. B. Snyder (1987) for an account of earlier confusion of this taxon with <i>S. morisonii</i> in New Jersey.</p>
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name=Spergula pentandra
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Sandy fields, other disturbed areas
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.C.;Va.;Europe;sw Asia;nw 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/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_19.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae
|genus=Spergula
|species=Spergula pentandra
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