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 Montana<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This vigorous low growing evergreen perennial from the mountains of Southwestern Europe grows up to 2\u201d tall and spreads to 6-12\u201d wide. \u00a0From wiry prostrate or upright stems it carries larger than most leaves and flowers. \u00a0The linear to lance shaped grayish green leaves \u00bd-1 \u00bd\u201d long. \u00a0In early summer it bears shallowly cup shaped white flowers with yellow-green centers are \u00bd-1\u201d wide are freely borne singly or in few flowered cymes.<\/p>\n Zones 3-8<\/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":26491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[49,21,22,31,20],"product_tag":[75],"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-160251828"},"_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\/3408"}],"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=3408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}