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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Minuartia arctica
|accepted_authority=(Steven ex Seringe) Graebner in P. F. A. Ascherson et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in P. F. A. Ascherson et al., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl.
|place=5(1): 772. 1918
|year=1918
}}
|common_names=Arctic stitchwort or sandwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria arctica
|authority=Steven ex Seringe
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsine arctica
|authority=(Steven ex Seringe) Fenzl
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lidia arctica
|authority=(Steven ex Seringe) Á. Löve & D. Löve
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia arctica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Minuartia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Minuartia arctica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 116, 117, 118, 131
|treatment_page=page 120
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, mat-forming. <b>Taproots</b> stout, woody. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, green, 3–10 cm, retrorsely puberulent or stipitate-glandular, internodes of flowering stems 2–6 times as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> tightly overlapping (vegetative) or variably spaced (cauline), usually connate proximally, with tight, scarious to herbaceous sheath 1.2–1.5 mm; blade straight to outwardly curved, green, obscurely 1-veined, linear (proximal vegetative) or subulate (cauline), rounded 3-angled (abaxial surface thickened, rounded, adaxial surface flat to concave), 5–20 × 0.4–1 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, herbaceous, often ciliate, apex often purple, rounded to truncate, shiny, glabrous (vegetative) or glabrous to stipitate-glandular (cauline); axillary leaves absent. <b>Inflorescences</b>: flowers solitary, terminal; bracts narrowly lanceolate to oblong, herbaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.5–3 cm, usually densely stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium cup-shaped; sepals prominently 3-veined proximally, lanceolate to narrowly ovate (herbaceous portion often purple, ovate to oblong), 4–8 mm, enlarging slightly in fruit, apex often purple, rounded, hooded, stipitate-glandular; petals oblanceolate, 1.5–2 times as long as sepals, apex broadly rounded, entire. <b>Capsules</b> narrowly ellipsoid, 9–10 mm, longer than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> brown, suborbiculate with radicle prolonged into beak, compressed, 1.2–1.6 mm, minutely tuberculate (50×). <b>2n</b> = 22 (Russia), 26 (Russia), 38 (Russia), 52, ca. 80.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Dry ridges, rocky mountain slopes, heathlands, alpine snowbed slopes, stony tundra
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=N.W.T.;Yukon;Alaska;Asia.
|discussion=<p><i>Minuartia arctica</i> is an amphi-Beringian species that is known to intergrade with <i>M. obtusiloba</i>. Hybrids between <i>M. arctica</i> and <i>M. macrocarpa</i> are known as well.</p>
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name=Minuartia arctica
|author=
|authority=(Steven ex Seringe) Graebner in P. F. A. Ascherson et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsine arctica;Lidia arctica
|basionyms=Arenaria arctica
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Dry ridges, rocky mountain slopes, heathlands, alpine snowbed slopes, stony tundra
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=N.W.T.;Yukon;Alaska;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=in P. F. A. Ascherson et al., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl.
|publication year=1918
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_243.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia arctica
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