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|accepted_name=Minuartia howellii
|accepted_authority=(S. Watson) Mattfeld
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|place=57(Beibl. 126): 27. 1921
|year=1921
}}
|common_names=Howell’s stitchwort
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Arenaria howellii
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=20: 354. 1885
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsinopsis howellii
|authority=(S. Watson) A. Heller
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia howellii
|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 howellii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 117, 124
|treatment_page=page 127
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Taproots</b> moderately stout. <b>Stems</b> erect to spreading, green, becoming purple, 12–30 cm, mostly glabrous, internodes of all stems 2–7 times as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> sometimes overlapping proximally, often connate proximally, with loose, scarious to herbaceous sheath 0.2–0.5 mm; blade straight to recurved, green, becoming purple, concave, prominently 1(–3)-veined abaxially, linear-lanceolate, 5–15 × 1–2.5 mm, rigid, margins not thickened, slightly scarious, smooth, apex green to purple, obtuse to acute, often apiculate, flat to navicular, dull, densely stipitate-glandular; axillary leaves absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 5–25+-flowered, open cymes; bracts lanceolate to ovate, herbaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.3–4+ cm, stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium disc-shaped; sepals weakly veined proximally, ovate (herbaceous portion ovate to narrowly so), 1.9–3 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex often purple, ± acute to acuminate, not hooded, stipitate-glandular proximally; petals oblanceolate, 1.8–2.3 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, entire. <b>Capsules</b> on stipe ca. 0.2 mm, broadly ovoid, 2.7–3.5 mm, usually longer than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> blackish brown, suborbiculate with radicle prolonged to rounded beak, somewhat compressed, 1.4–1.7 mm, tuberculate; tubercles low, rounded, often elongate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Chaparral, Jeffrey pine-oak woodlands, serpentine
|elevation=500-1000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
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|references=
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name=Minuartia howellii
|authority=(S. Watson) Mattfeld
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsinopsis howellii
|basionyms=Arenaria howellii
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Chaparral, Jeffrey pine-oak woodlands, serpentine
|elevation=500-1000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|publication year=1921
|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia howellii
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