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Moehringia trinervia (apetalous sandwort)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Moehringia trinervia, commonly known as apetalous sandwort or three-nerved sandwort, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Caryophyllaceae. A native of Eurasia, it has been introduced into North America.
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Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [1]  White
Height [2]  16 inches (.4 m)
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Bees
Structure [4]  Herb
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Shady
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Aphis sambuci (Elder Aphid)[5]
Coleophora chalcogrammella[6]
Diuraphis holci[6]
Ophiomyia melandricaulis[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Peronospora arenariae[7]
Puccinia chasmatis[7]
Ramularia arenariae[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Ecology of Commanster
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0