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Sabulina mediterranea

Minuartia mediterranea

Sabulina mediterranea is a small annual flowering plant from the pink family, native to the Mediterranean Basin and parts of western Asia. It grows as a low, wild plant on dry, open ground, and it is rarely grown on purpose.

Family
Caryophyllaceae (Pink & carnation family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry between waterings, as it is adapted to dry Mediterranean conditions.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil.
Temperature
Mild Mediterranean conditions; tolerates warm, dry summers and cool winters.
How easy
Easy

About

Sabulina mediterranea is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae (carpetweeds). It is an annual native to the Mediterranean Basin region, including parts of southern Europe (Albania, Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Corsica, East Aegean Islands, France, Greece, Italy, Crete, Portugal, Sicily, Spain, European Turkey, and former Yugoslavia), north Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia) and western Asia (Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, and Turkey).

Other Minuartia plants

Minuartia bosniaca · Minuartia krascheninnikovii · Recurved Sandwort · Minuartia sintenisii · Stitchwort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sabulina mediterranea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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