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| Vernacular name | Satgathia | |
| Scientific name | Spergula vulgaris Boenn., Spergula arvensis subsp. vulgaris (Boenn.) O. Schw | |
| Family | Caryophyllaceae | |
| Season | Rabi | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Annual, glabrous, deffused plant. Oily-feeling weed with short taproot and creeping ramified growth. Stems - erect or ascending in groups or prostrate, jointly articulated, up to 40 cm high or long. | |
| Leaves | Leaves spreading in pseudowhoorls, fleshy, linear-subulate. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Flower - five white petals and calyx with separate sepals, in terminal, umbellate-like inflorescence. Boll - wide ovate, opens with 5 folds or not open. |   |
| Fruit/ seed | Casules ovoid, exceeding the calyx, 6 valved. Seeds redish brown. Seeds-black, with narrow brownish margin. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Moist places | |
| Flowering and fruiting | October - April | |
| Associated with | Cultivated field, fallow lands | |
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