About Spergularia bocconei (Scheele) Graebn.
Spergularia bocconei (Scheele) Graebn. is a species of flowering plant commonly called Boccone's sandspurry, Greek sea-spurrey, or Boccone's sea-spurrey. It belongs to the genus Spergularia in the family Caryophyllaceae, and is named for Paolo Boccone, a Sicilian botanist. This species was first formally published by Scheele in 1843 under the name Alsine bocconi. Graebner transferred it to the genus Spergularia in 1919, and in 1984 Pedersen reclassified it into the genus Spergula.
