| There are only two flowering plants, the Antarctic hair grass and the Antarctic pearlwort. |
| Only two vascular plants, Antarctic hairgrass and Antarctic pearlwort, have colonized the Maritime Antarctic. |
| Among these on the newer dunes are sea-holly and sea bindweed, and at the edges of older dunes are slender centaury, knotted pearlwort and sea-heath. |
| The basalt underpinnings of Trotternish produce a diversity of Arctic and alpine plants including alpine pearlwort and mossy cyphal. |
| Detailed studies of the leaf micromorphology in the Antarctic pearlwort were carried out. |
| They include field garlic, chives, maiden pink, long-stalked cranesbill, heath pearlwort, common rockrose and burnet rose. |
