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|accepted_name=Minuartia stolonifera
|accepted_authority=T. W. Nelson & J. P. Nelson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=43: 17, fig. 1. 1991
|year=1991
}}
|common_names=Stolon or Scott Mountain sandwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia stolonifera
|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 stolonifera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 119, 124, 129, 130, 133
|treatment_page=page 134
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, mat-forming. <b>Taproots</b> moderately stout, woody. <b>Stems</b> ± erect, gray-green, 10–20 cm, glabrous or often stipitate-glandular, especially distally, internodes of stems 1–6 times as long as leaves (proximal leaves often shorter than internodes), 2–3 stolons radiating from crown, 6–20 cm. <b>Leaves</b> overlapping, loosely proximally, evenly spaced, connate proximally, with tight, scarious sheath 0.3–0.8 mm; blade ± straight to outwardly curved, gray-green, shallowly concave, 3-veined, often prominently so abaxially, needlelike, 5–11 × 0.5–0.9 mm, rigid, margins not thickened, scarious in proximal 1/2, stipitate-glandular, apex green to purple, acute to obtuse, navicular, dull, stipitate-glandular throughout; axillary leaves weakly developed among proximal cauline leaves. <b>Inflorescences</b> 7–25-flowered, open cymes; bracts lanceolate to subulate, herbaceous, margins scarious. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.3–1.5 cm, often stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium disc-shaped; sepals 1–3-veined (weakly in flower), ovate to lanceolate, (herbaceous portion narrowly lanceolate to linear-oblong), 3.5–4.8 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex green to purple, narrowly acute to acuminate, not hooded, stipitate-glandular; petals broadly oblanceolate, 1.6–1.8 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, entire. <b>Capsules</b> sessile, ovoid, 3.5–5 mm, equaling sepals. <b>Seeds</b> reddish brown to brown, oblong-elliptic, 2–2.4 mm, tuberculate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Jeffrey pine woodlands, serpentine soils
|elevation=1200-1400 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Minuartia stolonifera</i>, like <i>M. decumbens</i> and <i>M. rosei</i>, is restricted to serpentine soils of northwestern California, specifically to Scott Mountain in Siskiyou County. The three species are most closely related to the polymorphic <i>M. nuttallii</i>.</p>
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name=Minuartia stolonifera
|authority=T. W. Nelson & J. P. Nelson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Jeffrey pine woodlands, serpentine soils
|elevation=1200-1400 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Brittonia
|publication year=1991
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia stolonifera
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