NOUN
- any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls
How To Use pearlwort In A Sentence
- Only four alien species are widespread on the island, but the integrity of the ecosystem has recently been threatened by the invasion of an alien groundcover, procumbent pearlwort Sagina procumbens. Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom
- Even Antarctica's only two species of flowering plants, hairgrass and pearlwort, have changed their positions of dominance: the moss-like pearl-wort appears more adaptable to the warming.
- Detailed studies of the leaf micromorphology in the Antarctic pearlwort were carried out.
- The major recent invasion there by procumbent pearlwort required an eradication program during 1999-2000 and the weed will need monitoring and containment for several years. Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom
- Even Antarctica's only two species of flowering plants, hairgrass and pearlwort, have changed their positions of dominance: the moss-like pearlwort appears more adaptable to the warming.
- Members of the Pink family include a number of annuals, biennials, or perennials, including corn spurry, chickweeds and stitchworts (Stellaria spp. and Cerastium spp.), bladder campion, pearlwort, and bouncingbet.
- Penguin chicks are fledging and the waxy white flowers of the pearlwort are in bloom. Times, Sunday Times
- Other related species include stitchwort and chickweed, catchflies, knawels, pearlworts and sea-spurreys.
- Only two vascular plants, Antarctic hairgrass and Antarctic pearlwort, have colonized the Maritime Antarctic.