NOUN
- low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens
- low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers
- loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe
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- The two flowers oftenest noticed by the chance comer to these parts are the Greenland sandwort (the "mountain daisy"!) and the pretty geum, with its handsome crinkled leaves and its bright yellow blossoms, like buttercups. The Foot-path Way
- On the first of these occasions, although I was eight days later than I had been the year before (June 19th instead of June 11th), the diapensia was just coming into somewhat free bloom, while the sandwort showed only here and there a stray flower, and the geum was only in bud. The Foot-path Way
- Characteristic sandy seashore plants are sea sandwort Honckenya peploides and lyme-grass Elymus mollis. Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
- Among these are nailwort, slender mountain sandwort, rock jasmine, and alpine primrose.
- The slide passed, the path winds through dense, low spruce growth, and, the last steep cliffs gradually overcome, the extreme limit of tree vegetation (four thousand eight hundred feet) is passed, and the remaining rocky slope offers no growth except a few hardy plants, such as sandwort, grasses, and several varieties of moss and lichen. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
- Those found within Mt. Robson park include low sandwort Atenaria longipedinculata, slender Indian paintbrush Castilleja gracillima, western Indian paintbrush C. occidentalis, sulphur indian paintbrush C. sulphurea and arctic cinquefoil Potentilla hyparctica. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Canada
- To what extent, if at all, the sandwort depends upon the service of insects for its fertilization, I do not know, but it certainly has no scarcity of such visitors. The Foot-path Way
- White mountain-avens may cover entire ridges in the Alaska Range, associated with moss campion, black oxytrope, arctic sandwort, lichens, grasses, and sedges. Alaska Range Humid Tayga - Tundra - Meadow (Bailey)
- White mountain-avens may cover entire ridges in the Alaska Range, associated with moss campion, black oxytrope, arctic sandwort, lichens, grasses, and sedges. Alaska Range Humid Tayga - Tundra - Meadow (Bailey)
- How wise, too, is the sandwort in its choice of a dwelling-place! The Foot-path Way
