| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caryophyllaceae | Sabulina diffusa | Calcareous ledges and glades. | E. and c. Kentucky, sw. Virginia, and e. and c. Tennessee; also s. Missouri. | ![]() (c) Krakowiak, Alaina - CC-BY | |
| Caryophyllaceae | Sabulina fontinalis | Seepage Starwort, Water Starwort | Seepages and wet cliffs, disturbed areas, over calcareous substrate, growing from moss mats; rarely in lawns. | C. Tennessee (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997) and c. Kentucky; disjunct in the Black Belt of Alabama (B. Keener, pers. comm., 2023). | ![]() (c) Finzel, Brian - CC-BY-SA |
| Caryophyllaceae | Sabulina michauxii | Rock Sandwort | Limestone, dolostone, calcareous sandstone, serpentine, and calcareous shale outcrops and barrens. | Maine west to South Dakota, south to Virginia, Alabama, nw. Arkansas, Texas, and New Mexico. | ![]() (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Caryophyllaceae | Sabulina muscorum | Lime-barren Sandwort | Rocky barrens of calcareous or mafic rocks, sandy barrens. | Missouri, e. Kansas, e. Oklahoma, and e. Texas. | ![]() (c) Witsell, Theo - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Caryophyllaceae | Sabulina paludicola | Godfrey's Sandwort | Tidal freshwater marshes, calcareous seeps, other wetlands. | Peculiarly and irregularly distributed, with isolated and scattered locations in the Coastal Plain and Mountains: wc. Virginia, ne. Tennessee, e. North Carolina, ne. South Carolina, e. Panhandle Florida, n. peninsular Florida, and wc. Alabama. The c. Tennessee material is likely not the same as S. paludicola. Reports from s. Arkansas were misidentified. See Virginia Botanical Associates (2026) for details on Virgini occurrences in Montgomery and Roanoke counties. | ![]() © NCU Herbarium staff |
| Caryophyllaceae | Sabulina patula | Lime-barren Sandwort | Rocky barrens of calcareous or mafic rocks, also in disturbed, shallow, calcareous soils. | Ec. Pennsylvania and w. Virginia west to Indiana and Minnesota, south to Alabama and Texas. | ![]() (c) Cressler, Alan M. |





