Sagina

Annual or perennial, often tufted herbs; glabrous, ciliate or sparsely glandular-hairy. Leaves sessile, opposite; stipules absent. Flowers solitary, 4–5-merous, bisexual; bracts herbaceous or with narrow scarious margins; sepals 4 or 5, free; petals 4 or 5, entire, often minute or absent; stamens 4 or 8 (rarely 5 or 10); ovary 1-celled, with many ovules, styles 4 or 5. Capsule ovoid to subglobose, splitting to base into as many valves as styles; seeds numerous, minute, more or less reniform to obovoid or subglobose, with or without a dorsal groove, more or less tuberculate.