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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Minuartia pusilla
|accepted_authority=(S. Watson) Mattfeld
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|place=57(Beibl. 126): 28. 1921
|year=1921
}}
|common_names=Annual sandwort;dwarf stitchwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria pusilla
|authority=S. Watson
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsinopsis pusilla
|authority=(S. Watson) Rydberg
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia pusilla
|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 pusilla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 116, 118, 123
|treatment_page=page 132
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Taproots</b> threadlike. <b>Stems</b> spreading to erect, green, 1–5 cm, glabrous, internodes of all stems 2–10 times as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> not overlapping, irregularly spaced, connate proximally, with loose, mostly herbaceous sheath 0.2–0.3 mm; blade ascending to widely spreading, green, concave proximally, flat distally, obscurely 1-veined, awl-shaped to lanceolate, 1.5–5 × 0.2–1.5 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, scarious throughout or proximally, smooth, apex green or purple, acute to obtuse, flat to navicular, often shiny, glabrous; axillary leaves absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2–9-flowered, open cymes; bracts subulate, herbaceous, margins scarious proximally. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.1–0.5 cm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium disc-shaped; sepals 1-veined, or weakly 3-veined in proximal 1/5, ovate to lanceolate (herbaceous portion lanceolate to narrowly so), 1.5–3.5 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex green or purple, acute to acuminate, not hooded, glabrous; petals narrowly lanceolate, 0.5–1 times as long as sepals, apex narrowly acute, entire, or absent. <b>Capsules</b> on stipe ca. 0.1 mm, ± ovoid, ca. 3 mm, equaling or longer than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> brown or reddish, asymmetically reniform with radicle prolonged into beak, not compressed, 0.5–0.6 mm, minutely papillate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Plains, pine barrens, dry rock cliffs
|elevation=50-2400 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.
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name=Minuartia pusilla
|author=
|authority=(S. Watson) Mattfeld
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsinopsis pusilla
|basionyms=Arenaria pusilla
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Plains, pine barrens, dry rock cliffs
|elevation=50-2400 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|publication year=1921
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia pusilla
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