View source for Sagina nivalis

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Sagina nivalis
|accepted_authority=(Lindblom) Fries
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novit. Fl. Suec. Mant.
|place=3: 31. 1842
|year=1842
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Spergula saginoides var. nivalis
|authority=Lindblom
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Physiogr. Sällsk. Tidskr.
|publication_place=1: 328. 1838
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sagina intermedia
|authority=Fenzl ex Ledebour
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Spergella intermedia
|authority=(Fenzl ex Ledebour) Á. Löve & D. Löve
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Sagina;Sagina nivalis
|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 nivalis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 140, 141, 143
|treatment_page=page 144
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, forming low cushions, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> ascending or spreading, radiating from axils of basal rosette leaves, sometimes purple tinged, many-branched, slender. <b>Leaves</b>: axillary fascicles absent; basal in primary rosettes, secondary rosettes absent, blade subulate to linear, to 20(–30) mm, fleshy, apex apiculate, glabrous; cauline connate basally into shallow cup, blade often purplish, subulate to linear, 4–16 mm, becoming shorter toward stem apex, scarious, apex apiculate, glabrous. <b>Pedicels</b> filiform, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> mostly terminal, 4-merous or 4- and 5-merous; calyx base glabrous; sepals frequently purplish, nearly orbiculate to elliptic, 1.5–2 mm, hyaline margins nearly always purple, sometimes only at apex, apex rounded, glabrous, remaining appressed following capsule dehiscence; petals narrowly elliptic, 1.5–2 mm, equaling to slightly shorter than sepals; stamens 8 or 10. <b>Capsules</b> 2–3 mm, usually shorter than 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. <b>2n</b> = 56, 88.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid-late summer.
|habitat=Sandy or gravelly beaches, coastal rocks, alluvial plains, fresh glacial moraines, low, swampy tundra, alpine areas
|elevation=0-2800 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Mont.;arctic Eurasia.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Sagina nivalis
|authority=(Lindblom) Fries
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Sagina intermedia;Spergella intermedia
|basionyms=Spergula saginoides var. nivalis
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering mid-late summer.
|habitat=Sandy or gravelly beaches, coastal rocks, alluvial plains, fresh glacial moraines, low, swampy tundra, alpine areas
|elevation=0-2800 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Mont.;arctic Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novit. Fl. Suec. Mant.
|publication year=1842
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_294.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Sagina
|species=Sagina nivalis
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