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Sandwort

noun

Loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe. Synonym: Moehringia mucosa.

Low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers. Synonym: Moehringia lateriflora.

Low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens.

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"Sandwort" Quotes from Famous Books

... similar feature may be noticed the wild succory, creeping mallow, purple sandwort, small bindweed, common nipplewort, and smooth sow-thistle. Then of course there is the pimpernel, known as the shepherd's clock and poor man's weather-glass; while the small purslane and the common garden lettuce are also included in ...

— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

... a glorious day. I enjoyed the climb, the lessening forest, the alpine plants (the diapensia was in full flower, with its upright snowy goblets, while the geum and the Greenland sandwort were just beginning to blossom), the magnificent prospect, the stimulating air, and, most of all, the mountain itself. I sympathized then, as I have often done at other times, with a remark once made to me by a Vermont farmer's wife. I had sought a night's lodging at her ...

— The Foot-path Way • Bradford Torrey