pearlwort
colobanthus latin

He has found that warming improves growth of pearlwort but appears to have a negative impact on hairgrass.

Recently I saw an offering for Corsican pearlwort.

Sagina maritima is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name sea pearlwort.

Hairgrass, which was the dominant species in Antarctica, is now being displaced by pearlwort, a mosslike plant.

Scarce plants found at the warren include Knotted Pearlwort and Slender Bedstraw.

It typically grows among small sedges, fescue grass and other members of the pearlwort and sandwort genera.

Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort) is one of the two flowering plants found in the Antarctic region.

Alpine Pearlwort (Sagina saginoides)

They may occur alongside scarce species including lesser centaury, curved hard-grass and sea pearlwort, with soft hornwort in the dykes.

Sea Pearlwort (Sagina maritima)

Sagina subulata (Heath Pearlwort or Irish Moss; syn.

Sagina nodosa (Knotted Pearlwort) is a species in the genus Sagina, native to northern Europe.

Mint Versus Pearlwort Q. Some time ago, you wrote about a plant called Corsican mint, which I tried unsuccessfully to buy.

At Palmer Station, I met Tad Day, a plant biologist who studies Antarctica's only two flowering plants: hairgrass and pearlwort.

The basalt underpinnings of Trotternish produce a diversity of Arctic and alpine plants including alpine pearlwort and mossy cyphal.

There are only two species of flowering plant, Antarctic hair grass and Antarctic pearlwort, but a range of mosses, liverworts, lichens and macrofungi.

The extensive coastal vegetation includes lichens, mosses and grasses, with Antarctic Hairgrass and Antarctic Pearlwort.

As well as mosses, lichens and algae, the flowering plants Antarctic Hairgrass and Antarctic Pearlwort occur.

Deschampsia antarctica (Antarctic hair grass) is one of two flowering plants native to Antarctica, the other being Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort).

Only two flowering plants inhabit continental Antartica, the Antarctic hair grass (Deschampsia antarctica) and the Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis).

There are no trees or shrubs in Antarctica and just two species of indigenous vascular plants: Antarctic hairgrass (Deschampsia antarctica) and Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis).

Cliffs and mountains host a diversity of arctic and alpine plants including Alpine Pearlwort, Mossy Cyphal, Mountain Avens and Fir Clubmoss.

Two flowering plants, Deschampsia antarctica (Antarctic hair grass) and Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort), are found on the northern and western parts of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Heath Pearlwort is a low-growing prostrate perennial plant forming a thick, dense mat with stems less than 10 cm long, and slender subulate (awl-shaped) leaves up to 1 cm long.

Its topography is undulating, rising to 40 m, with many streams Its abundant vegetation includes mosses, lichens, and two species of vascular plant - Antarctic Hairgrass and Antarctic Pearlwort.

The larvae and pupae have been collected mostly on mosses, but a few were collected on Colobanthus species.

Colobanthus muscoides is a perennial herb that forms a dense mat or cushion up to 250 mm thick and sometimes up to several metres across.

Sagina (like Colobanthus called "pearlworts") is a genus of 20-30 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae.

Colobanthus pulvinatus (Colobanthus)

As well as on Kerguelen, Colobanthus kerguelensis occurs on the Crozet, Prince Edward, and Heard Islands.

Colobanthus muscoides is a low-growing, moss-like flowering cushion plant in the Caryophyllaceae, or carnation family, found on islands in the south-west Pacific, especially in the subantarctic region.

The former lists seven or eight subformations made up of algae, lichens and mosses in varying combinations; the latter includes only one subformation, involving the two antarctic flowering plants, the grass Deschampsia antarctica and the pink or pearlwort Colobanthus quitensis.