Saturday, May 17, 2025

Moehringia macrophylia - Large Leaf Sandwort

Moehringia macrophylla
Big-Leaf Sandwort, large leaf sandwort.
Single stem to cushion, descending to upright. Stem square or grooved to round, leafy, often branched. Leaves opposite, lance-shaped with pointed tips, 1–2 1/2 in. long, more or less evenly spaced, reducing in size upward. Flowers 2–5 in open cluster on short stalks near stem tops. Flowers small, with 5 sharply pointed sepals, 5 white rounded petals about same size as sepals. Grows in moist, shaded to dry forests.
Found right at entrance to Preserve at Schmitz.
Under hazelnut. 

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