Kingdom Plantae Family Caryophyllaceae Scientific name Minuartia nuttallii Rank Species | Order Caryophyllales Genus Minuartia Higher classification Minuartia | |
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Similar Minuartia, Minuartia douglasii, Caryophyllaceae, Minuartia obtusiloba, Minuartia rubella | ||
Minuartia nuttallii is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names Nuttall's sandwort and brittle sandwort.
It is native to western North America from southwestern Canada to California and Nevada, where it grows in several types of habitat, including rocky and barren ridges, chaparral and woodlands, often on serpentine soils.
Description
Minuartia nuttallii is a rhizomatous perennial herb forming low mats of glandular, hairy herbage. The thin, rigid, sometimes needlelike leaves may be just over a centimeter long but are barely a millimeter wide.
The small flowers have five white petals usually under a centimeter long and ribbed, pointed sepals.
References
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