Fine-leaved Sandwort

Minuartia hybrida, Minuartia tenuifolia, Fine-leaved Sandwort,
Hebrew: צללית הכלאיים, Arabic: ابو حربيه


Scientific name:		Minuartia hybrida (Vill.) Schischk.
Synonym name:		Minuartia tenuifolia (L.) Hiern.
Common name:		Fine-leaved Sandwort
Hebrew name:		צללית הכלאיים
Arabic name:		ابو حربيه
Family:		Caryophyllaceae, ציפורניים

_{Location: Lower Galilee, Manof}


Life form:		Annual
Stems:		3-12 cm, erect, branched at base
Leaves:		Opposite, entire, linear, smooth
Inflorescence:		Cymes lax, many-flowered
Flowers:		White; sepals, linear to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; petals distinctly shorter than sepals
Fruits / pods:		Capsule; seeds tuberculate, reddish-brown
Flowering Period:		January, February, March, April, May
Habitat:		Batha, Phrygana, Hard rock outcrops
Distribution:		Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Deserts and extreme deserts, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon
Chorotype:		Med – Irano-Turanian
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

_{Location: Lower Galilee, Manof}
Derivation of the botanical name:

Minuartia, named for Juan Minuart (1693 – 1768), a Spanish botanist and pharmacist.

hybrida, mongrel, hybrid.
tenuifolia, tenuis, thin, fine, slim, slender; folia, leaf; slender leaved.
The Hebrew name: צללית, zlallit, silhouette; formed from צל ( shadow, shade), with suffix -it.

The standard author abbreviation Vill. is used to indicate Dominique Villars (1745 – 1814),a French botanist.
The standard author abbreviation Schischk. is used to indicate Boris Konstantinovich Schischkin (1886 – 1963), a Russian botanist.
The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
The standard author abbreviation Hiern. is used to indicate William Philip Hiern (1839 – 1925), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematician

_{Location: Lower Galilee, Manof}