Sand Spurrey - Spergularia rubra

Short, stickily hairy plant. Leaves fleshy, semi-cylindrical in whorls and end in a short bristle, the flowers are pink and have five petals.

Spergularia marina

See key in Stace for differences.  

Records must be verified by a County Recorder from a specimen or series of photos

Dry waste places, bare and cultivated land.

Flowers between May and early September.

Annual or biennial.

Widespread in much of Britain, but sometimes local.

Local in Leicestershire and Rutland.  In the Flora of Leicestershire (Primavesi and Evans 1988) it was found in 30 of the 617 tetrads.

In the current checklist (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Native, scarce and confined to Charnwood Forest and Croft.

It was on the 2011 VC55 Rare Plant Register (Jeeves, 2011) but does not meet the criteria for the current RPR (Hall and Woodward, 2022) - possibly under-recorded in the past, but may be increasing