Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Drymaria rotundifolia
flor de la mañana de piedra
Annual, 20cm tall, with dark reddish brown or brown seeds (0.8 mm diam) and broadly ovate leaves. Lanceolate-elliptic sepals (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Prefers high elevations (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Drymaria
Species
rotundifolia
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Drymaria nitida Ball; Zuloaga (1997) as Alsine rotundifolia (Poir.) Macloskie
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: The native range of this species is Galápagos, mainland Ecuador to Peru (POWO, 2023).
- Adsersen, H. (1989) The Rare Plants of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador and their Conservation. Biol. Conservation 47(1): 49-77.
- Eliasson, U. (1966) Studies in Galápagos Plants. III. Centrospermae. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 60: 393-439.
- Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Van der Werff, H.H. (s.a.) Pers. obs. and colls. Personal observations and collections.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Drymaria rotundifolia", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=264. Accessed 26 May 2026.