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Arenaria lanuginosa
Also called Spread Sandwort, Diffuse Starwort, Stickweed
Spreading sandwort is a low, mat-forming annual or subshrub with small white five-petaled flowers, native to warm parts of the Americas. It is a wild herb rather than a commonly cultivated garden plant, and it thrives in full sun with moist but well-drained soil.
Arenaria lanuginosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. Its common name is spreading sandwort. It is an annual or subshrub native to the subtropical and tropical Americas.
It is native to the southwestern, south-central, and southeastern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, Andean South America, northern Argentina, and southern and southeastern Brazil.
Mossy Sandwort · Fringed Sandwort · Arenaria funiculata · Arenaria grandiflora · Arenaria halacsyi · Low sandwort · Thyme-leaved sandwort · Arenaria libanotica · Livermore sandwort · Mountain sandwort · Sierra Nevada Sandwort · Norwegian Sandwort
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arenaria lanuginosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
