Botanical name: Herniaria hirsuta    Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Synonyms: Herniaria vulgaris var. hirsuta, Paronychia hirsuta, Herniaria pauciflora

Hairy Rupture-Wort is an annual, prostrate, branched, hairy herb. Stem and branches are with 2-4 mm long internodes, with short hairs. Leaves are opposite, stalkless, covered with stiff short hairs or older ones occasionally marginally fringed with hairs, alternate on flowering shoots, narrowly elliptic-oblong to elliptic, 2-4 mm long and 1-1.25 mm wide, blunt, margin entire, hairy. Flowers are borne in dense, leaf opposed, star-shaped cyme-like clusters of 6-9 flowers. Flowers are green, 5-merous, 1-1.5 mm long, stalkless, densey covered with short, stiff, spreading hairs. Petals are 5, free, thread-like, alternate with and shorter than sepals, about 0.4 mm long. Stamens 3-5, antisepalous, filaments minute; anthers ovoid. Sepals are 5, equal or somewhat unequal in older flowers, about 1 mm long, oblong, blunt, covered with stiff, whitish spreading hairs, margins membranous. Fruit is papillose near the tip, scarcely equalling the persistent sepals. Seed is minute, ovoid, brown. Hairy Rupture-Wort is found in Europe to Central Asia and W Himalaya, NW & NE Africa to Arabian Peninsula. Flowering: August-September.

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