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Beautiful Sandwort

Sabulina rubella

Also called Boreal Stitchwort, Reddish Sandwort, Reddish Stitchwort, Mountain Sandwort

Beautiful Sandwort
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Caryophyllaceae (Pink & carnation family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Subarctic to N. & WC. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Sabulina rubella is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by several common names, including beautiful sandwort, mountain sandwort, Arctic sandwort, and boreal stitchwort.

Where it grows

It has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout the northernmost Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle on the Arctic tundra into the alpine climates of mountainous areas in temperate Eurasia and North America. It grows in rocky, moist, often barren habitat, including gravelly, sparsely vegetated slopes with little organic matter. It is a calciphile, growing in calcareous substrates such as soils rich in decomposed limestone.

Other Sabulina plants

Sabulina californica · Sabulina cismontana · Sabulina decumbens · Sabulina howellii · Sabulina rosei · Sabulina stricta · Sabulina verna · Douglas's Stitchwort · Northern Sandwort · Sabulina fontinalis · Nuttall's Stitchwort · Annual sandwort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sabulina rubella by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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