Minuartia (Noun)
Meaning
Mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Minuartia is a small genus of flowering plants which is now often placed in the genus Arenaria.
- Minuartia is native to mountains and arctic tundras of the Northern Hemisphere, where it often forms small mats.
- The Minuartia plants produce small white flowers from April to July.
- Minuartia have leaves in a linear, awl-shaped and smooth appearance, often forming tiny clumps at branching nodes.
- The plant genus minuartia has been reclassified, and the former genus Minuartia has been placed as a synonym of the broader genus Arenaria.