Minuartia
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Minuartia is a genus of small flowering plants collectively known as the sandworts or stitchworts. The genus is classed within the family Caryophyllaceae, the pink family, characterised by its opposite and decussate leaves.
Minuartias are small plants, which grow in inhospitable conditions such as rocky ledges, stony soil. They are found in alpine environments. The genus is widely distributed, being native in Asia, Europe and North America.
Many Minuartia species were formerly classed in the genus Arenaria, and the obsolete genus Alsine. Minuartia sedoides was previously placed in Cherleria.
The genus was named for J. Minuart (1693-1768), a Spanish botanist and pharmacist.
Species include:
- Minuartia arctica arctic sandwort
- Minuartia austromontana Columbian sandwort
- Minuartia biflora mountain sandwort
- Minuartia californica California sandwort
- Minuartia caroliniana pinebarren sandwort
- Minuartia cherlerioides
- Minuartia cismontana
- Minuartia cumberlandensis Cumberland sandwort
- Minuartia dawsonensis rock sandwort
- Minuartia decumbens lassicus sandwort
- Minuartia dirphya
- Minuartia douglasii Douglas' sandwort
- Minuartia drummondii Drummond's sandwort
- Minuartia elegans
- Minuartia filiorum threadbranch sandwort
- Minuartia gerardii
- Minuartia glabra Appalachian sandwort
- Minuartia godfreyi Godfrey's sandwort
- Minuartia graminifolia (syn. Alsine rosani)
- Minuartia groenlandica Greenland sandwort
- Minuartia howellii Howell's sandwort
- Minuartia laricifolia
- Minuartia macrantha House's sandwort
- Minuartia macrocarpa longpod sandwort
- Minuartia marcescens serpentine sandwort
- Minuartia michauxii rock sandwort
- Minuartia muscorum Dixie sandwort
- Minuartia nuttallii Nuttall's sandwort
- Minuartia obtusiloba twinflower sandwort
- Minuartia patula pitcher's sandwort
- Minuartia pusilla annual sandwort
- Minuartia rosei peanut sandwort
- Minuartia rossii Ross' sandwort
- Minuartia rubella
- Minuartia sedoides mossy cyphel; dwarf cherleria. Confined to high mountains in Europe.
- Minuartia stolonifera
- Minuartia stricta bog sandwort
- Minuartia tenella slender sandwort
- Minuartia uniflora
- Minuartia viscosa
- Minuartia yukonensis Yukon sandwort
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