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|accepted_name=Minuartia marcescens
|accepted_authority=(Fernald) House
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. Midl. Naturalist
|place=7: 132. 1921
|year=1921
}}
|common_names=Serpentine stitchwort or sandwort;minuartie de la serpentine
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Arenaria marcescens
|authority=Fernald
|rank=species
|publication_title=Rhodora
|publication_place=21: 15. 1919
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria laricifolia var. marcescens
|authority=(Fernald) B. Boivin
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia marcescens
|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 marcescens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 116, 118
|treatment_page=page 128
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, mat-forming or more commonly straggly. <b>Taproots</b> stout, woody. <b>Stems</b> ascending, green, 4–6 cm, glabrous proximally, stipitate-glandular distally, internodes of flowering stems 6–8 times as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> tightly overlapping (vegetative), variably spaced (cauline), usually connate proximally, with tight, scarious to herbaceous sheath 0.5–1.5 mm; blade straight to outwardly curved, green, 3-angled, prominently 1-veined abaxially, subulate, 4–8 × 0.3–0.8 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, herbaceous, smooth, apex green, rounded to truncate, sometimes apiculate, shiny, glabrous; axillary leaves present among vegetative leaves. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers, terminal; bracts lance-subulate, herbaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.5–1.5 cm, usually densely stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium cup-shaped; sepals 3-veined, ovate to broadly lanceolate (herbaceous portion oblong to narrowly ovate), 3–4 mm, not enlarging in fruit proximally, apex often purple, rounded, hooded or not, stipitate-glandular; petals white or rarely lilac, spatulate to spatulate-obovate, 1.5–2 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, entire. <b>Capsules</b> narrowly ellipsoid, 6–10 mm, longer than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> brown, suborbiculate with radicle prolonged into beak, somewhat compressed, 0.9–1.2 mm, smooth.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Ultramafic ledges and barrens
|elevation=200-1000 m
|distribution=Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Que.;Vt.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>Marcescent leaves are a characteristic feature of this species.</p>
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name=Minuartia marcescens
|authority=(Fernald) House
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Arenaria laricifolia var. marcescens
|basionyms=Arenaria marcescens
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Ultramafic ledges and barrens
|elevation=200-1000 m
|distribution=Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Que.;Vt.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. Midl. Naturalist
|publication year=1921
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia marcescens
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