The slide passed, the path winds through dense, low spruce growth, and, the last steep cliffs gradually overcome, the extreme limit of tree vegetation (four thousand eight hundred feet) is passed, and the remaining rocky slope offers no growth except a few hardy plants, such as sandwort, grasses, and several varieties of moss and lichen. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Characteristic sandy seashore plants are sea sandwort Honckenya peploides and lyme-grass Elymus mollis. From Wordnik.com. [Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland] Reference
White mountain-avens may cover entire ridges in the Alaska Range, associated with moss campion, black oxytrope, arctic sandwort, lichens, grasses, and sedges. From Wordnik.com. [Alaska Range Humid Tayga - Tundra - Meadow (Bailey)] Reference
(Stellaria media), sandwort (Spergula), and some willow-herbs. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
How wise, too, is the sandwort in its choice of a dwelling-place!. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
The Teesdale rock-rose and Teesdale sandwort have existed in isolation since the last ice age in the Durham Dales. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Rare plants include blue-hearts, Texas sandwort, crested coralroot, crane-fly orchid, dwarf hackberry and spotted wintergreen. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
They strolled about the summit, admired the prospect, picked a bunch of sandwort, perhaps, but especially they went to see the snow. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
More than 300 species of flowering plants have been recorded, including national rarities such as pale forget-me-not and spring sandwort. From Wordnik.com. [Whitehaven News headlines] Reference
To what extent, if at all, the sandwort depends upon the service of insects for its fertilization, I do not know, but it certainly has no scarcity of such visitors. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
I remember, too, how the whole summit, from the Nose to the Chin, was sprinkled with the modest and beautiful Greenland sandwort, springing up in every little patch of thin soil, where nothing else would flourish, and blossoming even under the door-step of the hotel. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
Seabeach sandwort. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
In ancient times some Mr. Bell (?) was sailing this way in his ark with seeds of rocket, saltwort, sandwort, beachgrass, samphire, bayberry, poverty-grass, &c., all nicely labelled with directions, intending to establish a nursery somewhere; and did not a nursery get established, though he thought that he had failed?. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod] Reference
Everybody notices that many of the mountain species, like the diapensia, the rose-bay, the Greenland sandwort (called the mountain daisy by the Summit House people, for some inscrutable reason), and the phyllodoce, have blossoms disproportionately large and handsome; as if they realized that, in order to attract their indispensable allies, the insects, to these inhospitable regions, they must offer them some special inducements. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
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