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|accepted_name=Spergularia canadensis
|accepted_authority=(Persoon) G. Don
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Hist.
|place=1: 426. 1831
|year=1831
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Arenaria canadensis
|authority=Persoon
|rank=species
|publication_title=Syn. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 504. 1805
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae;Spergularia;Spergularia canadensis
|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 canadensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 17
|treatment_page=page 20
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, delicate to stout, 3–25 cm, glabrous or stipitate-glandular throughout or only in inflorescence. <b>Taproots</b> slender. <b>Stems</b> prostrate or decumbent to erect, usually branched proximally; main stem usually 0.4–1.8 mm diam. proximally. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules inconspicuous, dull white, broadly triangular, 1–2.8 mm, apex obtuse to acute; blade linear, 1.5–4.5 cm, fleshy, apex ± blunt; axillary leaf clusters mostly absent. <b>Cymes</b> simple to 2+-compound or flowers solitary and axillary. <b>Pedicels</b> reflexed in fruit. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals connate 0.5–0.6 mm proximally, lobes weakly 1-veined, ovate to elliptic-oblong, 2.2–3.5 mm, to 4.3–4.5 mm in fruit, margins 0.2–0.5 mm wide, apex ± acute to rounded; petals white or pink, narrowly ovate, 0.9–1 times as long as sepals; stamens 2–4; styles 0.3–0.7 mm. <b>Capsules</b> greenish, 3.5–5.3 mm, 1.2–2 times as long as sepals. <b>Seeds</b> reddish brown, submarginal groove absent, broadly ovate, compressed, 0.9–1.4 mm, shiny, ± smooth, papillate; wing absent or often present, whitish, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, margins irregular.</span><!--

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|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Nunavut;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Alaska;Calif.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;Oreg.;R.I.;Wash.;Coastal North America.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Capsules 1.5-2 times as long as sepals; sepals 2.2-3.2 mm, to 4.5 mm in fruit, apex broadly rounded; stems prostrate or decumbent; plants glabrous except pedicels rarely stipitate-glandular
|[[Spergularia canadensis var. canadensis|Spergularia canadensis var. canadensis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Capsules 1.2-1.3 times as long as sepals; sepals 2.5-3.5 mm, to 4.3 mm in fruit, apex ± acute to narrowly obtuse; stems widely spreading to erect; plants glabrous or stipitate-glandular
|[[Spergularia canadensis var. occidentalis|Spergularia canadensis var. occidentalis]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Spergularia canadensis
|authority=(Persoon) G. Don
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Arenaria canadensis
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Nunavut;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Alaska;Calif.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;Oreg.;R.I.;Wash.;Coastal North America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Hist.
|publication year=1831
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_29.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae
|genus=Spergularia
|species=Spergularia canadensis
}}<!--

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