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Scleranthus annuus
Also called Annual knawel, German knotweed, German moss, Knawel, German Knotgrass, Annual Knawel, Annual Scleranthus
German knotgrass is a low, spreading annual or biennial weed of disturbed, sandy or stony ground. It is a plant of waste places and fields rather than a garden ornamental, and it is rarely grown on purpose.
Scleranthus annuus is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names German knotweed and annual knawel. It is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and it is known throughout the rest of the temperate world as an introduced species and a common weed. It grows in many types of habitat, often in disturbed areas.
It grows in soil pockets among rocks, on bare places, on disturbed sandy soil on heaths, in arable fields, in sand pits, in quarries, and occasionally on shingle on the coast or beside rivers.
Two Flower Knawel · Scleranthus brockiei · Scleranthus diander · Scleranthus fasciculatus · Perennial knawel · German knotgrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scleranthus annuus 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.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
