A plant with bright pink flowers, sometimes called 'sea pink', and often found growing along coastlines, in marshes, or in other regions that are unwelcoming to less hardy plants. In Middle-earth, the only reference we have to it is amid the coastal ruins of Vinyamar, where Tuor found it growing alongside campion on the wide stony steps that led up to the abandoned halls of Turgon.
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The thrift flower is also sometimes known as a 'rockrose' because of its preferred habitat of sea shores and cliffs, but the name was used for various different flowers growing in rocky conditions. A flower named a 'rockrose' was found by Bilbo Baggins and his companions growing in the foothills of the Misty Mountains far from the sea, but this was a quite different use of the name. These woodland rockroses of the Vales of Anduin were completely unrelated to thrift, belonging instead to the genus Helianthemum.
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