Caryophyllaceae
Tundra sandwort
Arenaria pseudofrigida
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- Genus
- Arenaria
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Common names
By language (6)
- English
- Tundra sandwort
- Finnish
- Tunturiarho
- French
- Sabline ciliée
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Kalkarve
- se
- Várrenárva
- Swedish
- Polarnarv
Synonyms
- Arenaria ciliata subsp. pseudofrigida Ostenf. & O.C.Dahl
- Arenaria ciliata var. pseudofrigida (Ostenf. & O.C.Dahl) B.Boivin
- Arenaria multicaulis subsp. pseudofrigida (Ostenf. & O.C.Dahl) Á.Löve & D.Löve
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Greenland: native
Photos
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.