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

genus

Sandworts

Arenaria

Traits
Includes
2 native 1 introduced 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Mountain Sandwort
  • Spreading Sandwort native
  • Transvolcanic False Moss present
  • Arenaria tetraquetra
  • Hilly Sandwort present
  • Mossy Sandwort
  • Norwegian Sandwort
  • Tundra Sandwort
  • Creeping Sandwort
  • Marsh Sandwort native
  • Arenaria alfacarensis
  • Low Sandwort
  • Livermore Sandwort native
  • Arenaria ciliata
  • Arenaria serpyllifolia
  • Trans-Pecos 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 sandworts All

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

  • Spreading Sandwort Arenaria lanuginosa
  • Marsh Sandwort Arenaria paludicola
  • Livermore Sandwort Arenaria livermorensis

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