1. Low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens
   "Sandwort thrived in the rocky crevices of the alpine garden"
    
2. Low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petalled flowers
   "Sandwort dotted the alpine meadow with tiny white blooms";
   - Moehringia lateriflora
    
3. Loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petalled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe
   "The sandwort formed soft cushions between the rocks";
   - Moehringia mucosa

Derived forms: sandworts

Type of: flower

Part of: Arenaria, genus Arenaria, genus Moehringia, Moehringia

Encyclopedia: Sandwort