Sabulina paludicola (Fern. & B.G. Schub.) E.E. Schilling
Detail
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- Botanical Name
- Sabulina paludicola (Fern. & B.G. Schub.) E.E. Schilling
- Common Name
- Godfrey's Sandwort
- Synonym(s)
- Mononeuria paludicola (Fern. & Schub.) Dillengerger & Kadereit; MInuartia godfreyi (Shinners) McNeill; Arenaria godfreyi Shinners
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Minuartia godfreyi (Shinners) McNeill
- Comments
- This species' range consists of scattered and isolated populations disjunct between the Coastal Plain and Appalachians in seven southeastern states. It was initially verified for Virginia through an examination of specimen records and photographs on the SERNEC portal, which revealed an historical Montgomery County occurrence. That site has not been relocated. However, in 2025, Alaina Krakowiak discovered a population of Sabulina paludicola in a Roanoke County wetland.
Schilling et al's (2022) molecular study of the Mononeuria segregate of Caryophyllaceae (including traditional Minuartia) showed that it was polyphyletic. The two clades formed in analysis now represent the genera Geocarpon and Sabulina. The work seems solid and suggests that "broader sampling of Sabulina and Geocarpon could lead to increased understanding of the timing and origins of occupation of calcareous glades and rock outcrop habitats in eastern North America." - Habitat
- One historical record: "Seepage area over shale" near Ironto, Montgomery Co.; R. Kral 10334, 23 May 1960; specimen at FSU, det. R.K. Rabeler (2013). Extant (2025) in a presumably calcareous, marshy wetland in Roanoke County, where it grows with Persicaria amphibia and Juncus effusus. Evidently rare in Virginia, and throughout the range.
- Native Status
- Native
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