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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Minuartia godfreyi
|accepted_authority=(Shinners) McNeill
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=82: 498. 1980
|year=1980
}}
|common_names=Godfrey’s stitchwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Arenaria godfreyi
|authority=Shinners
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sida
|publication_place=1: 51. 1962,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia godfreyi
|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 godfreyi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 116, 118, 119
|treatment_page=page 126
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>short-lived perennial or winter annual. <b>Taproots</b> filiform. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, arising from mats of slender, prostrate or ascending, wintering stems, green, 10–40 cm, occasionally stipitate-glandular at nodes, internodes of all stems 1–3 times as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> sometimes overlapping proximally, connate proximally, with ± loose, herbaceous sheath 0.2–0.4 mm; blade widely spreading to erect, green, 1-veined abaxially, flat, narrowly elliptic (proximal petiolate blades) to linear (remaining cauline blades), 8–30 × 0.5–3 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, scarious, occasionally stipitate-glandular, apex green, acute to acuminate, shiny, glabrous; axillary leaves absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 3–5(–7)-flowered, open, leafy cymes; bracts linear to lanceolate, herbaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–5 cm, sparsely glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium disc-shaped; sepals 3-veined, lanceolate (herbaceous portion linear-lanceolate to lanceolate), 3.5–5 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex often purple, acute, not hooded, stipitate-glandular; petals oblong-spatulate, 2.5–3 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, shallowly notched. <b>Capsules</b> on stipe ca. 0.2 mm, ovoid, 4 mm, shorter than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> black, suborbiculate to reniform, radicle obscure, laterally compressed, 0.6–0.8 mm, muriculate-papillate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Open mesic meadows, seeps, and stream banks
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Minuartia godfreyi</i> is known from few, very widely scattered populations; it may be most closely related to <i>M. patula</i> and <i>M. muscorum</i>, sharing prominently ribbed sepals with both taxa and black, muriculate-papillate seeds with the latter (R. Kral 1983).</p>
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name=Minuartia godfreyi
|authority=(Shinners) McNeill
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Arenaria godfreyi
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Open mesic meadows, seeps, and stream banks
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1980
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia godfreyi
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