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|accepted_name=Minuartia groenlandica
|accepted_authority=(Retzius) Ostenfeld
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Meddel. Grønland
|place=37: 226. 1920
|year=1920
}}
|common_names=Greenland stitchwort;mountain sandwort;minuartie du Groenland
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Stellaria groenlandica
|authority=Retzius
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Scand. Prodr. ed.
|publication_place=2, 107. 1795
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsinopsis groenlandica
|authority=(Retzius) Small
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria groenlandica
|authority=(Retzius) Sprengel
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Porsildia groenlandica
|authority=(Retzius) Á. Löve & D. Löve
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sabulina groenlandica
|authority=(Retzius) Small
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia groenlandica
|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 groenlandica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 116, 119, 123, 127
|treatment_page=page 126
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, mat-forming. <b>Taproots</b> filiform to slightly thickened. <b>Stems</b> ascending to erect, green, 3–10 cm, glabrous, internodes of all stems 2–4 times as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> overlapping proximally (basal rosette), perfoliate, connate proximally, with ± tight, herbaceous to scarious sheath 0.5–1 mm; blade erect to spreading, green, weakly 1-veined abaxially, flat, ± linear, 4–12(–15) × 0.5 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, slightly scarious to herbaceous, smooth, apex green, rounded, dull, glabrous; axillary leaves absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 3–5-flowered, open, leafy cymes or sometimes solitary, terminal; bracts linear to subulate, mostly herbaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.2–1(–2) cm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium disc-shaped; sepals obscurely veined, elliptical-oblong to obovate (herbaceous portion elliptical-oblong to obovate), 2–4.5 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex green, obtuse to rounded, not hooded, glabrous; petals clawed, broadly obovate, 2–2.2 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, shallowly notched. <b>Capsules</b> on stipe shorter than 0.1 mm, broadly ellipsoid, 5.5 mm, longer than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> brown, obliquely triangular with adaxial groove, radicle prolonged into short beak, compressed, 0.5–0.8 mm, obscurely tuberculate. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Rocky and gravelly slopes, ledges in alpine areas, cracks in exposed bedrock
|elevation=0-1800 m
|distribution=Greenland;St. Pierre and Miquelon;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Maine;N.H.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;South America (Brazil).
|discussion=<p><i>Minuartia groenlandica</i> is morphologically very similar to <i>M. glabra</i> (Michaux) Mattfeld; the two are clearly separable by habit, phenology, and elevation at the southern end of the range of <i>M. groenlandica</i> (R. E. Weaver 1970).</p><!--
--><p>E. Hultén (1964) confirmed the report of <i>Minuartia groenlandica</i> from a mountain in southern Brazil (Morro de Igreja, Santa Catarina). This remains the only report of <i>Minuartia</i> in South America.</p>
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name=Minuartia groenlandica
|authority=(Retzius) Ostenfeld
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsinopsis groenlandica;Arenaria groenlandica;Porsildia groenlandica;Sabulina groenlandica
|basionyms=Stellaria groenlandica
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Rocky and gravelly slopes, ledges in alpine areas, cracks in exposed bedrock
|elevation=0-1800 m
|distribution=Greenland;St. Pierre and Miquelon;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Maine;N.H.;N.Y.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;South America (Brazil).
|reference=None
|publication title=Meddel. Grønland
|publication year=1920
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_257.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia groenlandica
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