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Arenaria ciliata
Also called Irish Sandwort
Arenaria ciliata, the fringed sandwort, is a perennial herb of the family Caryophyllaceae. It is a calcicole occurring in open grassland and on bare rock in mountainous areas.
It is European with an outlying population in Greenland. This species is not known from Britain. It was discovered in Ireland in 1806 growing on Ben Bulben in County Sligo. This remains the only known Irish population.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arenaria ciliata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
