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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Minuartia muscorum
|accepted_authority=(Fassett) Rabeler
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=15: 95. 1992
|year=1992
}}
|common_names=Dixie stitchwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Stellaria muscorum
|authority=Fassett
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria muriculata
|authority=Maguire
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria patula var. robusta
|authority=(Steyermark) Maguire
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Minuartia muriculata
|authority=(Maguire) McNeill
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Minuartia patula var. robusta
|authority=(Steyermark) McNeill
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia muscorum
|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 muscorum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 118, 126, 131, 132
|treatment_page=page 129
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Taproots</b> filiform. <b>Stems</b> erect, green, 10–55 cm, glabrous or weakly stipitate-glandular distally, internodes of all stems 0.5–2.5 times as long as leaves; wintering stems absent. <b>Leaves</b> not overlapping, connate proximally, with loose, scarious sheath 0.4–0.8 mm; blade straight to variously curved, green, flat, 1-veined, linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, (5–)10–35(–50) × (0.6–)1.5–3.2 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, herbaceous or thinly scarious, smooth, apex green, acute, flat, dull, glabrous; axillary leaves absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 5–50+-flowered, open cymes; bracts lanceolate to subulate, herbaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.6–5.5 cm, stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium shallowly disc-shaped; sepals prominently 3-veined, lanceolate (herbaceous portion narrowly lanceolate), 3–4 mm, to 5 mm in fruit, apex green, acute, not hooded, stipitate-glandular; petals obovate, 1.6–3 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, broadly notched. <b>Capsules</b> on stipe ca. 0.1 mm or shorter, ovoid to broadly so, 5.2–7 mm, longer than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> black, suborbiculate, radicle obscure, plump to slightly compressed, 0.6–0.8 mm, muriculate-papillate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Prairies, meadows, roadsides
|elevation=200-500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;La.;Mo.;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.
|discussion=<p>Minuartia muscorum is closely related to M. patula, and is distinguished by the often longer and wider leaves, often longer distal stem internodes, consistently three-veined sepals, and shiny, black, muriculate-papillate seeds. B. Maguire (1951) treated this taxon as both a variety of Arenaria patula and a new species; see R. K. Rabeler (1992) for a review of the curious nomenclatural history.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Minuartia muscorum
|author=
|authority=(Fassett) Rabeler
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Arenaria muriculata;Arenaria patula var. robusta;Minuartia muriculata;Minuartia patula var. robusta
|basionyms=Stellaria muscorum
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Prairies, meadows, roadsides
|elevation=200-500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;La.;Mo.;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=1992
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia muscorum
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