Citation: Piré, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 2:49 (1863).

Synonymy: Alsine pallida Dumort., Fl. Belg. 109 (1827).

Common name: Lesser chickweed.

Description:
Annual, very slender, ascending, with a line of hairs down each internode, rarely glabrous; leaves petiolate, ovate, subacute, glabrous, to c. 0,8 mm long.

Inflorescence a cyme; pedicels with a line of hairs or glabrous, erect, seldom reflexed in fruit; sepals 2-3 mm long, hairy, with purple tips and/or a marking towards the base; petals absent or rarely minute; stamens 1-3 rarely 5; styles 3.

Capsule c. 2 mm long, sparsely tomentose; seeds c. 6, 0.6-0.8 mm diam., a pale yellow-brown, rarely dark-coloured, tuberculate.

Published illustration: Ross-Craig (1951) Drawings Brit. Pl. 5:t. 36.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Oct. — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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