spurrey

noun (plural spurreys or spurries)

• a small widely distributed plant of the pink family, with pink or white flowers.

  • Genera Spergula and Spergularia, family Caryophyllaceae: several species, in particular corn spurrey (Spergula arvensis), a spindly weed of cornfields, and sand spurrey (Spergularia rubra), of sandy and gravelly soils