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Cardionema ramosissimum
Also called Sandmat
Sandcarpet is a small, prostrate perennial herb that forms dense mats on sand, mostly along coasts and dunes in the Americas, and also at high Andean elevations. It is a wild species rather than a common garden plant, and it is used mainly for beach erosion control.
Cardionema ramosissimum is a perennial plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, commonly known as sandcarpet, sandmat or tread lightly. It is a small, clumping, mat-forming plant found in a number of diverse habitats throughout its range, from sandy beaches and dunes to the high elevations of the Andes mountains. Cardionema ramosissimum has a disjunct distribution throughout the Americas, and is found on the Pacific coast of North America from Puget Sound to Baja California, in central Mexico, and widely across South America, from the Andes in Colombia to most of Argentina.
Cardionema ramosissimum is found on both continents of the Americas, but in a disjunct distribution, nearing an amphitropical distribution but not technically qualifying as such since it reaches the tropics in the Andes.
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