sandwort
- noun
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arenaria
- Mountain sandwort is one of several arctic-alpine species that grow on New Hampshire's Mount Monadnock (top photograph).
- mountain sandwort
Examples
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Others are highland rush, mountain sandwort, three-toothed cinquefoil, and northern mountain cranberry, all known from barren mountaintops near the Dixville Notch and on several summits in the Presidential Range.
Academic text (2011) -
The sandwort is a low-growing plant with small white flowers that thrive in sandy soils.
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She found a patch of sandwort blooming near the rocky pathway on her hike.
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In spring, the sandwort can be spotted easily due to its delicate white flowers in sandy areas.
Synonyms
A small flowering plant that grows in sandy or rocky places
A small, low flowering plant that forms soft round clumps on cold mountain and northern tundra slopes
A small plant with many short stems and white flowers that grows on high rocky ground
A small plant with white flowers that grows in high mountains or cold northern areas
A low plant that forms small clumps on rocky ground in southeastern North America
A long-lived plant with deep roots that grows in dry sandy pine areas of the southeastern United States
A low plant with thick leaves that store water that grows on sandy shores and has small single flowers
A plant with thick leaves and small single flowers that lives for many years on sandy coasts
A small low plant that grows in flat mats on rocky or sandy ground
A low-growing plant with four petals often found in rocky northern places
A low plant with small white flowers that have four petals
A small plant with moss-like leaves and tiny white four-petaled flowers that grows in rocky mountain places
A small spreading plant with leaves like the herb thyme that forms low mats
Compounds
A small plant with many short stems and white flowers that grows on high rocky ground
A low plant that forms small clumps on rocky ground in southeastern North America
A long-lived plant with deep roots that grows in dry sandy pine areas of the southeastern United States
A plant with thick leaves and small single flowers that lives for many years on sandy coasts
A small spreading plant with leaves like the herb thyme that forms low mats
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sandwort comes from the parts sand and wort, where wort means 'plant' or 'herb', the same 'wort' you see in St. John's wort. So sandwort is a plant that lives in sandy or rocky places and usually grows small and low to the ground.
