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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Minuartia caroliniana
|accepted_authority=(Walter) Mattfeld
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|place=57(Beibl. 126): 28. 1921
|year=1921
}}
|common_names=Pine-barren stitchwort or sandwort;long-root
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Arenaria caroliniana
|authority=Walter
|publication_title=Fl. Carol.,
|publication_place=141. 1788
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsinopsis caroliniana
|authority=(Walter) Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Minuopsis caroliniana
|authority=(Walter) W. A. Weber
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sabulina caroliniana
|authority=(Walter) Small
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia caroliniana
|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 caroliniana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 118, 129
|treatment_page=page 121
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial. <b>Taproots</b> stout, woody; crown with radiating subterranean branches. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, green, 8–28 cm, glabrous, internodes of flowering stems 0.3–10 times as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> variably spaced distally, overlapping (proximal 1/3), connate proximally, with tight, scarious to herbaceous sheath 0.2–1.5 mm; blade straight to slightly spreading, green, concave, 3-veined, lateral veins less prominent, lanceolate to subulate, 2–13 × 1–5 mm, rigid, margins rounded, scarious in proximal 1/2–2/3, smooth, apex green, blunt to apiculate, navicular, shiny, glabrous; axillary leaves present. <b>Inflorescences</b> 5–12+-flowered, narrow cymes; bracts ovate to subulate, ± scarious. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.2–3 cm, densely stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium disc- to cup-shaped; sepals obscurely veined, ± broadly ovate (herbaceous portion ± broadly ovate), 2.5–3 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex green, rounded, not hooded, stipitate-glandular proximally; petals spatulate, 2.5–3.2 times as long as sepals, apex broadly rounded, entire. <b>Capsules</b> on stipe ca 0.1 mm, ovoid, 4.7–5 mm, longer than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> brown, suborbiculate, without prolonged beak, not compressed, 0.6–0.65 mm, tuberculate; tubercles low, rounded.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Oak or pine woodlands, dry, open, sandy areas
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Md.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;S.C.;Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Minuartia caroliniana
|author=
|authority=(Walter) Mattfeld
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsinopsis caroliniana;Minuopsis caroliniana;Sabulina caroliniana
|basionyms=Arenaria caroliniana
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Oak or pine woodlands, dry, open, sandy areas
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Md.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;S.C.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|publication year=1921
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_247.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia caroliniana
}}<!--

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