{{Short description|Genus of herbs}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Subularia aquatica Sturm30.jpg |image_caption = Illustration of ''Subularia aquatica'' |taxon = Subularia |authority = L. (1753) |type_species = ''Subularia aquatica''<ref name="ing">{{cite web | url = https://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Subularia | title = ''Subularia'' | access-date = 2008-05-08 | date = 1996-02-09 | work = Index Nominum Genericorum | publisher = International Association for Plant Taxonomy }}</ref> |type_species_authority = L. |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = *''Subularia aquatica'' <small>L.</small> *''Subularia monticola'' <small>A.Braun ex Schweinf.</small> |subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Subularia'' L. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:13091-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=2 October 2025}}</ref> |synonyms = }}
'''''Subularia''''' is a genus of plants in the family Brassicaceae. ''Subularia'' species are annual herbs that grow in moist or even flooded soils. There are only two species of the genus: ''Subularia aquatica'', which is widespread in North America and Europe; and ''Subularia monticola'', from Africa mountains.<ref name="Kubitzki" /> '''Awlwort''' is a common name for plants in this genus.<ref>{{PLANTS|id=SUBUL|taxon=Subularia|accessdate=4 December 2015}}</ref>
==Description== ;Stems and leaves: Hairless, with fleshy leaves all growing from the base of the stem, arranged in little roselike clusters. Individual leaves are fleshy, very narrow and with an evenly continuous edge. ;Flowers: Few flowered in elongated clusters of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first. Sepals ascending to erect, white petals, spatulate to oblong, not clearly clawed and sometimes lacking. ;Fruits: Narrow elongated seed capsule which is peculiar to the family Brassicaceae.<ref name="Kubitzki">{{cite book |author1=K. Kubitzki |author2=K.U. Kramer |author3=P.S. Green |author4=J. G. Rohwer |author5=V. Bittrich |author6=H. Huber |author7=J. W. Kadereit |author8=C. Jeffrey | title = The families and genera of vascular plants | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=I8oMV1lsS6kC&pg=PA163 | publisher = Springer Science+Business Media | access-date = 2008-05-08 | isbn = 3-540-42873-9 | chapter = Cruciferae | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=I8oMV1lsS6kC&pg=PA163 |date=2002-09-12 }}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Subularia}} *{{WD1913|no-prescript=1}} *{{cite web | url = http://www.linnean-online.org/7420/ | title = LINN 822.2 ''Subularia'' sp. (Herb Linn) | access-date = 2008-05-08 | work = The Linnean Collections | date = 13 August 2007 | publisher = Linnean Society of London }} *{{cite web | url = http://www.botanicus.org/page/358663 | title = Species plantarum :exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas... | access-date = 2008-05-08 | last = Linné | first = Carl von | authorlink = Carl Linnaeus | date = 1753 | publisher = Missouri Botanical Garden - Tropicos }} *{{ITIS |id=23022 |taxon=''Subularia'' |accessdate=7 May 2008}} *{{cite web | url = https://green-posts.com | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190813091707/https://green-posts.com/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2019-08-13 | title = Genus: ''Subularia'' L. | access-date = 2008-05-08 | author = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | authorlink = Germplasm Resources Information Network | date = 2006-03-31 | work = Taxonomy for Plants | publisher = USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland }} *{{cite web | url = https://green-posts.com/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b2%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%8a%d8%a9/ | title = PLANTS Profile, ''Subularia'' | access-date = 2008-05-08 | author = Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) | authorlink = Natural Resources Conservation Service | work = The PLANTS Database | publisher = United States Department of Agriculture }}
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Category:Brassicaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1753 Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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