Spergularia (Pers.) J.Presl & C.Presl

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil South, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Central European Russia, Chad, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Connecticut, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, Denmark, Desventurados Is., District of Columbia, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Finland, Florida, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, India, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Juan Fernández Is., Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Kuwait, Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Louisiana, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Nebraska, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russia, Northern Territory, Northwest European Russia, Northwest Territories, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, NW. Balkan Pen., Oklahoma, Oman, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Qinghai, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South Carolina, South European Russia, Spain, Sudan-South Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tasmania, Texas, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Yemen

Introduced into:

Alabama, Angola, Bermuda, Brazil Northeast, Colorado, Free State, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, KwaZulu-Natal, Michigan, Minnesota, Namibia, New Caledonia, New Mexico, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Northern Provinces, Ohio, Wisconsin, Yukon

Recorded in error in:

Assam

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2005). Flora of North America North of Mexico 5: 1-656. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
• Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.
• Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1993). Flora Europaea ed. 2, 1: 1-581. Cambridge University Press.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

• von Raab-Straube, E. & Raus, T. (eds.) (2013). Euro+Med-Checklist notulae, 2. Willdenowia 43: 239-249. [Cited as Spergula.]

Flora of Iraq

• J. & C Presl Fl. Čechia 94 (1819)