# Subularia

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{{Short description|Genus of herbs}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Subularia aquatica Sturm30.jpg
|image_caption = Illustration of ''[Subularia aquatica](/source/Subularia_aquatica)''
|taxon = Subularia
|authority = [L.](/source/Carl_Linnaeus) (1753)
|type_species = ''[Subularia aquatica](/source/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](/source/International_Association_for_Plant_Taxonomy)
}}</ref>
|type_species_authority = L.
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision =
*''[Subularia aquatica](/source/Subularia_aquatica)'' <small>L.</small>
*''[Subularia monticola](/source/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](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) |publisher=[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew](/source/Royal_Botanic_Gardens%2C_Kew) |access-date=2 October 2025}}</ref>
|synonyms = 
}}

'''''Subularia''''' is a genus of plants in the family [Brassicaceae](/source/Brassicaceae). ''Subularia'' species are annual herbs that grow in moist or even flooded soils. There are only two species of the genus: ''[Subularia aquatica](/source/Subularia_aquatica)'', which is widespread in North America and Europe; and ''[Subularia monticola](/source/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](/source/Plant_stem) and [leaves](/source/Leaf): 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](/source/Flowers): Few flowered in elongated clusters of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first. [Sepal](/source/Sepal)s ascending to erect, [white](/source/white) [petal](/source/petal)s, spatulate to oblong, not clearly clawed and sometimes lacking. 
;[Fruit](/source/Fruit)s: Narrow elongated seed capsule which is peculiar to the family [Brassicaceae](/source/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](/source/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_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>

==References==
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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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture), [ARS](/source/Agricultural_Research_Service), 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](/source/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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