''Moehringia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the familyCaryophyllaceae.Volker Bittrich. 1993. "Caryophyllaceae" In: Klaus Kubitzki. ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants''. volume II, pages 206-236. Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg Germany. Members of this genus and of some other genera in Caryophyllaceae are commonly called sandworts. They are found only in the north temperate zone. The genus ''Moehringia'' was first formally named by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. It is named after the German naturalist
Paul Möhring
Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring (also Paul Mohr; 21 July 1710 in Jever – 28 October 1792) was a German physician, botanist and zoologist.
He studied medicine in Danzig and Wittenberg, and following graduation (1733), he settled as a general pr ...
Moehringia muscosa
''Moehringia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae.Volker Bittrich. 1993. "Caryophyllaceae" In: Klaus Kubitzki. ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants''. volume II, pages 206-236. Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg ...
''.Index Nominum Genericorum (see External links below) By 1992, there were 31 recognized species.Simone Fior and Per Ola Karis. 2007. "Phylogeny, evolution, and systematics of ''Moehringia'' (Caryophyllaceae) as inferred from molecular and morphological data: a case of homology reassessment." ''Cladistics'' 23(4):362-372. In 2007, Fior and Karis transferred four species from ''Moehringia'' to '' Arenaria'', leaving ''Moehringia'' with 27 species. ''M. fontqueri'', ''M. intricata'', ''M. tejedensis'', and ''M. glochidisperma'' were renamed ''A. funiculata'', ''A. suffruticosa'', ''A. tejedensis'', and ''A. glochidisperma'', respectively.
Species
Species include:
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Moehringia lateriflora
''Moehringia lateriflora'', commonly known as the bluntleaf sandwort, is a plant species native to Europe, Asia, the northern United States and most of Canada. It has been reported from every province and territory in Canada except the Northwest ...
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Moehringia macrophylla
''Moehringia macrophylla'', commonly known as the largeleaf sandwort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to parts of eastern and western North America, where it can be found in moist, shady habitat types, ...
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Moehringia muscosa
''Moehringia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae.Volker Bittrich. 1993. "Caryophyllaceae" In: Klaus Kubitzki. ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants''. volume II, pages 206-236. Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg ...
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Moehringia trinervia
''Moehringia trinervia'', commonly known as apetalous sandwort or three-nerved sandwort, is a herbaceous plant of the family Caryophyllaceae. A native of Eurasia, it has been introduced into North America.
Description
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Moehringia villosa
''Moehringia villosa'', commonly known as the short-haired sandwort, is a flowering plant of the genus ''Moehringia''. It is endemic to Slovenia where it has a very limited range with an extent of occurrence of less than in the southern parts of ...