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|accepted_name=Spergularia villosa
|accepted_authority=(Persoon) Cambessèdes in A. St.-Hilaire et al.
|publications=
|common_names=Hairy sand-spurrey
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Spergula villosa
|authority=Persoon
|rank=species
|publication_title=Syn. Pl.,in A. St.-Hilaire et al.,Fl. Bras. Merid.
|publication_place=1: 522. 1805,2: 129. 1830
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae;Spergularia;Spergularia villosa
|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>[[Spergularia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Spergularia villosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 17
|treatment_page=page 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>strongly perennial with branched, woody base, stout, 11–30 cm, stipitate-glandular in inflorescence or throughout. <b>Taproots</b> becoming stout, woody. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, often arcuately so, much-branched proximally; main stem 0.4–1.3 mm diam. proximally. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules ± conspicuous, dull white, broadly lance-acuminate, 3–8 mm, apex mucronate; blade filiform to linear, 1–4.2 cm, somewhat fleshy, apex apiculate or spine-tipped; axillary leaves 2–4 per cluster. <b>Cymes</b> simple to 3-compound. <b>Pedicels</b> spreading to reflexed in fruit. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals connate 0.5–0.7 mm proximally, lobes 1- or 3-veined, lance-ovate to lanceolate, 2.5–4 mm, to 5 mm in fruit, margins 0.1–0.6 mm wide, apex acute to acuminate but often briefly rounded at tip; petals white, ± elliptic, 0.7–0.8 times as long as sepal; stamens 7–10; styles 0.4–0.6 mm. <b>Capsules</b> greenish to tan, (4–)5–6.5 mm, 1.1–1.3 times as long as sepals. <b>Seeds</b> reddish brown to dark brown, often with submarginal groove, broadly ovate, plump, 0.4–0.5 mm, smooth, often sculptured with parallel, wavy lines, papillae often present; wing often present, white, 0.1–0.2 mm wide, margins irregular.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Sandy slopes and bluffs, clay ridges and plains, disturbed areas
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Mexico (Baja California);South America (Chile?).
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name=Spergularia villosa
|authority=(Persoon) Cambessèdes in A. St.-Hilaire et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Spergula villosa
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Sandy slopes and bluffs, clay ridges and plains, disturbed areas
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Mexico (Baja California);South America (Chile?).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae
|genus=Spergularia
|species=Spergularia villosa
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