There are about 160 species of annuals or low growing perennials that may become shrubby like, with age, in this genus. \u00a0They occur from mountainous, arctic and temperate region of the Northern Hemisphere with a few from the Southern hemisphere. \u00a0These are a somewhat evergreen plants, which bears deep green or gray-green opposite pairs of small, linear to ovate leaves. \u00a0They bear solitary or few-flowered small cluster of 5 petalled usually white flowers. \u00a0Great plant for a rock garden, alpine house, or in scree bed or for growing in crevices.<\/p>\n
There frost hardy plants are easily grown in moist well-drained, sandy poor soil in full sun. \u00a0Divide in spring.<\/p>\n
Prone to rust <\/i><\/em>and anther smut<\/i><\/em>\u00a0occur.<\/p>\n Arenaria balearica \u2013 Corsican Sandwort<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This miniature species from the western Mediterranean Islands grows to \u00bd\u201d tall and spreads to 12\u201d or more wide. \u00a0It forms a prostrate mat forming evergreen which root as they spread, with almost circular shiny, light green leaves are less then \u00bc\u201d long. \u00a0From late spring to summer it\u2019s dotted profusely with star shaped white flowers with green centered to \u00bc-1\/2\u201d wide. \u00a0It self seeds excessively.<\/p>\n Zones 4-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arenaria \u2013 Sandwort There are about 160 species of annuals or low growing perennials that may become shrubby like, with age, in this genus. \u00a0They occur from mountainous, arctic and temperate region of the Northern Hemisphere with a few from the Southern hemisphere. \u00a0These are a somewhat evergreen plants, which bears deep green or gray-green […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[21,32,31,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160251827"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}