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Minuartia bosniaca, Bosnian sandwort, is a small perennial alpine herb endemic to the East and Southeast Dinaric mountains of the Balkans. It forms dense turf on limestone and serpentine rocks and needs full sun, rocky drainage and cool conditions.
Minuartia bosniaca, or Bosnian sandwort, in Bosnian bosanska mišjakinjica, is endemic plant at East Dinaric mountains. Itbelongs to family of Caryophyllaceae (carnations).
Bosnian sandwort grows on limestone and serpentine rockeries and dry rocky pastures, the majority of the sub-alpine zone of vegetation. It is extremely heliophyte type. It is restricted endemic to Southeast Dinarides (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia), as well as in North Albania. Locus classicus is in Bosnia: on the rocks around Sarajevo (Beck, G. 1898).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Minuartia bosniaca 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.
