Molluginaceae
Green carpetweed
Mollugo verticillata
- Family
- Molluginaceae
- Genus
- Mollugo
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Common names
By language (5)
- Bangla
- কাঁথাঝুলি
- Chinese
- 光叶栗米草, 光葉栗米草, 光葉粟米草, 毯粟草, 种棱粟米草
- English
- Green carpetweed
- Finnish
- Kiehkuramattio
- Swedish
- Kransört
Synonyms
- Mollugo arenaria Kunth
- Mollugo axillaris Schlecht. ex Rohrb.
- Mollugo chevalieri Hutch. & Dalziel
- Mollugo costata Y.T.Chang & Wei
- Mollugo dichotoma Schrank
- Mollugo diffusa Willd. ex Steud.
- Mollugo hoffmannseggiana Ser.
- Mollugo juncea Fenzl
- Mollugo schrankii Ser.
- Mollugo spergulaefolia Willd. ex Fenzl
- Mollugo triphylla Schrank ex Steud.
- Pharnaceum arenarium (Kunth) Spreng.
- Pharnaceum hoffmannseggianum Schult.
- Pharnaceum verticellatum (L.) Spreng.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced, Lower 48 states: native, Puerto Rico: native, U.S. Virgin Islands: native
Photos
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Photo: Jim Morefield from Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Rahul Mungikar, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
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Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.