This cushion plant forms low cushions up to a metre wide making beautiful dense carpets of small, cream, strongly scented flowers from December to January. It prefers to be amongst rocks or sand.

Coastal Nassauavia is endemic to the Falklands where it is common and prefers to be near the coast in dry rocky areas.

Sources include: Flowering Plants of the Falkland Islands- Robin W Woods, The Vascular Flora of the Falkland Islands- D. M. Moore, B.Sc., Ph.D, 1968, Wild Flowers of the Falkland Islands T H Davis and J H McAdam

Photographic credits: Robert Maddocks,

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