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Minuartia obtusiloba
Also called Twinflower sandwort, Alpine Stitchwort, Twinflower Stitchwort, Alpine Sandwort
Cherleria obtusiloba is a perennial alpine herb known by the common names alpine sandwort and twinflower stitchwort. It is native to the mountains of western North America from the High Sierra of California to the Colorado Rockies north to Alaska, and to far northeastern Russia (Magadan, Kamchatka, and Yakutia). This is a low plant forming mats or clumps and bearing small thimble-shaped flowers with curving white petals.
C. Obtusiloba is a gynodioecious perennial which is a sexually dimorphic breeding system in which females (F, male sterile) and hermaphrodites (H) coexist in the same population.
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