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alpine sandwort

Cherleria obtusiloba

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) johnb-nz, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Colorado.

Colorado	2,062
United States	1,534
Canada	593
Yukon	232
British Columbia	194
Wyoming	178
Washington	130
Alberta	125
Northwest Territories	101
New Mexico	52

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	pinks, cactuses, and allies · Caryophyllales
Family	pink family · Caryophyllaceae
Genus	Cherleria

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
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