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Widespread and fairly frequent throughout the UK though absent from much of the East and most common in Scotland. Habitat includes: Dry, infertile, acid, often disturbed soils in places such as scrub, pasture, grassland, heaths, moors, rocky places, open woodland, roadside verges, railway banks, wasteland etc. Growing habit: Perennial. Height: Up to 20 cm. Flowers: May to August. It is in decline in lowland Britain. It is the main nectar food source for the Mountain Ringlet Butterfly.

ID: flowers are white, leaves 1-veined, 4-8 in a whorl, stems smooth or slightly rough on angles and square, leaves mucronate (with a short bristle-like tip), slender decumbent, prostrate or mat-forming plant, corolla lobes are acute