The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Page 226

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JOHS. GRONTVED
Icelandic : Móanóra. English : Rock Sandwort.
This species has been found in several places in the northern parts, otherwise
it seems very rare, see fig. 84, but most likely it is more frequent than the records
show, being easily overlooked, and perhaps also sometimes mistaken for M. rubella.
Life-form: Ch.
On gravelly soil, in mó and flag ; often at a somewhat high level.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 9 cm ; average : 6 cm.
Fig. 84. Minuartia stricta (Sw.) Hiern.
Geogr. area: Am.: Labrador, Quebec, Arctic Archipelago, and Alaska.—Greenl.:
W. 68°35'—70°40'. E. 70°5'—74°31'.—Eur. : E.; arctic and northcrn Europe ; Ural,
Alps, Jura mts., Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen.—Asia: Arctic and eastern Siberia,
Central Asia.
191. Sagina caespitosa (J. Vahl) Lange, Consp. fl. groenl. 1880,
p. 22.
Ing. Óskarsson, Nýjungar úr gróðurríki íslands, II, 1929, p. 43.—O. & Gr.,
1934, p. 63.
Flora Dan. tab. 2289.
Icelandic: Fjallkrækill.
This plant was recently found by Ing. Óskarsson, loc. cit., on Austurfjall in
Dalsmynni, N. (4.VII.1926). It was growing here and there in loose, gravelly soil
with sparse vegetation, at a level of about 800 m. It was found, too, on Kinnarfell
7.VII.1926, at about 370 m s. m. (I.Ó., loc. cit.). See fig. 85.
Life-form: Ch.
On loose, gravelly, moist soil in the hills.