Pygmy-flower Rock-Jasmine

Androsace septentrionalis, also known as pygmy-flower rock-jasmine, is a species of small plant that grows in disturbed areas and open ground in the northern hemisphere. It is widespread in Europe, Asia, and North America from Arctic areas to as far south as northern Mexico, India, and Pakistan. The species quite variable in the size of its flowering stems, but has just one rosette of leaves. Each plant will live for one or two years and die after flowering.

Androsace septentrionalis is a highly variable plant from hardly noticeable to substantial in size, but does not form a mat. Plants can be annuals or biennials with all their basal leaves in a single rosette.^[3] The leaves are attached by a very short petiole or directly without a leaf stem.^[4] They measure 5 to 35 millimeters long with a width of 3 to 10 mm and can be hairless or hairy, but usually ciliate, fringed with hairs along the leaf edge. Leaves have a oblanceolate to spatulate shape; like a reversed spear head or a spoon shape.^[3]