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 tetraquetra<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This species from the Pyrenees and the mountains of Spain forms a dense cushion up to 1-2\u201d tall and spreads to 6-8\u201d wide. \u00a0This evergreen perennial produces tiny ovate, overlapping, gray-green leaves up to 1\/8\u201d long. \u00a0In spring it\u2019s profusely dotted with solitary very short stemmed star shaped white flowers up to \u00bd\u201d wide.<\/p>\n Zones 5-8<\/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":26492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[21,32,31,20],"product_tag":[92],"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-160251830"},"_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\/3410"}],"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=3410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}