Month: December 2023

#813 They called me Spergularia marina, also known as Spergularia bofillii, Spergularia dillenii, and Spergularia marina var. simonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Bofill (I couldn’t find his records), Dillen (I couldn’t find his records), and Bryan Kenneth Simon, or Eugène Ernest Simon. They first catalogued me in 1822.

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