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Moehringia villosa
Moehringia villosa is a small perennial from the pink family, endemic to a narrow area of the southern Julian Alps in Slovenia, where it grows in rock crevices. It needs sunny, dry, rocky conditions and very little soil.
Moehringia villosa, commonly known as the short-haired sandwort, is a flowering plant of the family Caryophyllaceae. It is endemic to Slovenia where it has a very limited range with an extent of occurrence of less than 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) in the southern parts of the Julian Alps. It grows in cracks in sunny, rocky and dry areas.
Moehringia villosa is endemic to Slovenia, with a restricted distribution in the southern Julian Alps and their foothills. Its known distribution area spans from its easternmost locality under Mt. Hoč above the village of Podporezen (Železniki municipality), to its northeasternmost locality under Skopska Crna Gora in the area of Home (Bohinj municipality). The southernmost populations occur at Hudičev rob under Mt. Kojca (Cerkno municipality), while the northwesternmost locality—which represents the extreme northwestern boundary of the species' entire global range—is at Curk waterfall under Mt. Krn (Kobarid municipality). The majority of known localities are situated in the upper Bača valley in the Tolmin municipality.
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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.
