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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Pink Family
  7. Sandworts
  8. Grove Sandworts

genus

Grove Sandworts

Moehringia

Traits
Includes
2 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Three-nerved Sandwort
  • Bluntleaf Sandwort native
  • Largeleaf Sandwort native
  • Mossy Sandwort

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Annual Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native grove sandworts All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Bluntleaf Sandwort Moehringia lateriflora caterpillars 1
  • Largeleaf Sandwort Moehringia macrophylla

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