Family: Caryophyllaceae Greater Sea-spurrey / Perennial Sea-spurrey Spergularia media Flowering time: June - September. Perennial Coastal on muddy or gravelly shorelines and salt marshes. A creeping or +/- ascending plant with small, pointed, fleshy leaves and pink or pinky-white flowers. The petals are as long or longer than the sepals and most seeds have a membranous wing. Height to 30cm. Host to the fungal rust Uromyces sparsus Similar: Lesser Sea-spurrey, S. marina. Sepals longer than petals

Greater Sea-spurrey, Spergularia media
Studland, Dorset. June 2007