Common Name:
birdseye
pearlwort
Scientific Name:
Sagina procumbens
Family Name:
Caryophyllaceae
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Pink Family
Life Cycle
introduced perennial, reproducing by seed and stolons
Stems
prostrate or mounding forming mat, slender, smooth, bright green, rooting at nodes, nodes swollen
Leaves
opposite, narrowly linear, margins entire
Flowers
4-petaled and 4-sepaled, petal white and absent or present, sepals green and present, small and inconspicuous; terminal, solitary or clustered