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Caryophyllaceae family

Ross' Sandwort Minuartia rossii

Native

Ross' Sandwort is an annual wildflower native to Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. It grows to 0.2 ft.

Growing & care

USDA PLANTS · TRY
Size & form
Sources · Size & form
TRY Plant Trait Database (CC BY 4.0) — Height
USDA PLANTS — Lifespan
Height
0.2 ft
Lifespan
Annual
In the garden
Ground-cover layer — Sits in the ground-cover of a layered food forest or polyculture.Open guide →
Living mulch / groundcover — Low, ground-hugging grower — can carpet bare soil as a living mulch, shading out weeds and holding moisture.Open guide →
derived roles
Species characteristics from USDA PLANTS (public domain) + TRY (CC BY) — general guidance, not a guarantee for your exact site. Deer "browsing" is documented palatability, not a deer-proof claim.
Frequently grows with

Across 24 U.S. vegetation-survey plots that recorded Ross' Sandwort, these catalog species turned up most often in the same plot — a real field co-occurrence signal, not a planting prescription.

Entireleaf Mountain-avens · 75% Netleaf Willow · 71% Hair-like Sedge · 58% Richardson's Bittercress · 50% Field Horsetail · 50% Tall Cottongrass · 50% Purple Mountain Saxifrage · 50% Northern Singlespike Sedge · 46%
"%" = share of this plant's plots that also held the species. From sPlotOpen → (Sabatini et al. 2021, CC BY 4.0) — open vegetation plots: wild community composition, not garden design.
Sources for this entry (10) Open & cited
[01] Scientific name & family — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[02] Growth habit & duration — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[03] Native status & distribution — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[04] Common name — USDA PLANTS (via GBIF)
[05] Invasive / introduced status — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503) — native status
[07] Ecological value — GloBI
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