View source for Minuartia drummondii

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|accepted_name=Minuartia drummondii
|accepted_authority=(Shinners) McNeill
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh
|place=24: 147. 1962
|year=1962
}}
|common_names=Drummond’s stitchwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Arenaria drummondii
|authority=Shinners
|rank=species
|publication_title=Field &amp; Lab.
|publication_place=17: 89. 1949,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia drummondii
|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 drummondii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 116, 117, 125
|treatment_page=page 124
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Taproots</b> filiform. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, green, 5–20 cm, stipitate-glandular, often densely so, internodes of all stems 1–3 times as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> overlapping proximally, perfoliate proximally, with ± loose, scarious to herbaceous sheath 0.5–1 mm; blade green, flat, 1-veined, oblanceolate to cuneate (proximal) to oblong-lanceolate to ovate (remaining cauline), 5–30(–35) × 2–4 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, ± scarious, smooth, apex green to purple, obtuse to abruptly pointed, dull, glabrous; axillary leaves absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 7–12-flowered, open cymes, or rarely solitary, terminal; bracts ± lanceolate, herbaceous, sometimes scarious-margined proximally. <b>Pedicels</b> reflexed in fruit, 0.5–2.5 cm, stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium disc-shaped; sepals obscurely veined, ovate to broadly elliptic (herbaceous portion ovate to broadly elliptic), 3–6 mm, to 7 mm in fruit, apex green or purple, acute to acuminate, not hooded, stipitate-glandular; petals obovate to oblanceolate, 2–2.5 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, broadly notched. <b>Capsules</b> sessile, broadly ellipsoid, 6–7.5 mm, equaling or longer than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown to blackish, orbiculate with radicle prolonged into beak, only slightly compressed, 0.7–0.8 mm, echinate with rounded tubercles.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter–early summer.
|habitat=Open grassy woodlands, sandy soils
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Ark.;La.;Okla.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Minuartia drummondii</i> is easily recognized by the proportionally large corollas (petals to three times as long as sepals) and pedicels reflexing in fruit.</p>
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name=Minuartia drummondii
|authority=(Shinners) McNeill
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Arenaria drummondii
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter–early summer.
|habitat=Open grassy woodlands, sandy soils
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Ark.;La.;Okla.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh
|publication year=1962
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia drummondii
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