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|accepted_name=Minuartia yukonensis
|accepted_authority=Hultén
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ark. Bot., n. s.
|place=7: 521968
|year=1968
}}
|common_names=Yukon stitchwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lidia yukonensis
|authority=(Hultén) Á. Löve & D. Löve
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia yukonensis
|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 yukonensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 118
|treatment_page=page 136
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, mat-forming. <b>Taproots</b> stout, woody. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, green, 10–30 cm, minutely retrorsely pubescent proximally, flowering stems stipitate-glandular, usually densely so, internodes of flowering stems 3–5 times as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> tightly overlapping (vegetative), variably spaced (cauline), usually connate proximally, with tight, scarious to herbaceous sheath 0.5–1.8 mm; blade straight to outwardly curved, green, flat, 3-veined abaxially, midvein more prominent than 2 lateral veins, filiform-linear, 10–18 × 0.8–1.3 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, scarious, ciliate, often sparsely so, apex green, often with white callosity, acuminate-pungent, flat to slightly navicular, shiny, glabrous; axillary leaves present among vegetative leaves. <b>Inflorescences</b> 3–13-flowered, open cymes; bracts lanceolate, herbaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> 2–5 cm, densely stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium cup-shaped; sepals prominently 3-veined, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate (herbaceous lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate), 6–8 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex green to purplish, rounded, hooded, stipitate-glandular, especially proximally; petals oblanceolate, 1.3–1.5 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, entire. <b>Capsules</b> narrowly ellipsoid, 7–10 mm, longer than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> reniform, ca. 1 mm, tuberculate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Dry, rocky slopes and meadows, scree slopes into alpine zone
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.W.T.;Yukon;Alaska;Asia (Russian Far East).
|discussion=<p><i>Minuartia yukonensis</i> is an amphi-Beringian species, reported from two sites in the Russian Far East. Some collections of it may be labeled as <i>Arenaria</i> laricifolia Linnaeus, a European species to which Alaskan material has been misattributed.</p>
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name=Minuartia yukonensis
|authority=Hultén
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lidia yukonensis
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Dry, rocky slopes and meadows, scree slopes into alpine zone
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.W.T.;Yukon;Alaska;Asia (Russian Far East).
|reference=None
|publication title=Ark. Bot., n. s.
|publication year=1968
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia yukonensis
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