Spreading Pygymyleaf

Family:  Caryophyllaceae (Pink Family)

Flower Month:  February – August

Bloom Color:  White, Yellow

Duration:  Annual

Growth Form:  Forb

Armed / Unarmed:  Unarmed

Leaf Complexity:  Simple

Leaf Shape:  Subulate

Size Notes: Up to 5” tall

Fruit Type:  Capsule

Online sources for the information presented in this photo story:

1. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
2. U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service
3. United States Geological Survey
4. Burke Herbarium Image Collection
5. iNaturalist

• “Male Mesoxaea texana on the South Texas Sand Sheet”
• “Female Mesoxaea texana on the South Texas Sand Sheet”
• “Making more Mesoxaea texana on the South Texas Sand Sheet”
• “Mesoxaea texana nectaring on Waltheria indica on the South Texas Sand Sheet!”
• “Tepanec Long-horned Bees Nectaring on Coma on the South Texas Sand Sheet,” by C. M. Rich, Texas Master Naturalist

• American Badger
• Amphibians
• arachnid
• Arboretum
• Archaeology
• Astronomy
• At the water's edge ~ Stealth Cam Videos
• Bats on the Sand Sheet
• Birds
• Cacti
• Canid
• Chicle – a silly, fun-loving, stealthy Donkey
• Cochineal
• Coma
• Donkey Tails: The Life and Times of Chicle
• Epiphytes
• Fauna
• Flora
• Flowering
• insect
• Insects
• Lechuza
• lizard
• Loeflingia squarrosa
• Long-horned Bee
• mammal
• Mesoxaea texana
• Micrographs
• mite
• Mosses
• Mothing
• Native Bees
• Nature is my classroom.
• Nature Stories
• Night Pollinators
• Nights on the Sand Sheet
• non-insect Arthropods
• owls
• Pollinators
• rabbit
• Reptile
• Reptiles
• Sand Sheet Geology
• Shrubs and Bushes
• Skies over El Mesteño
• snake
• Snoop the Horse
• spider
• Tamaulipan Thornscrub
• Texas Native Bee
• Thorn Forest
• Thorn Thicket
• Tortoise
• Tracks
• Vines
• Wildflowers
• Wildflowers

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