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|accepted_name=Minuartia elegans
|accepted_authority=(Chamisso & Schlechtendal) Schischkin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in V. L. Komarov et al., Fl. URSS
|place=6: 508. 1936
|year=1936
}}
|common_names=Elegant stitchwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Arenaria elegans
|authority=Chamisso & Schlechtendal
|rank=species
|publication_title=Linnaea
|publication_place=1: 57. 1826
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsinanthe elegans
|authority=(Chamisso & Schlechtendal) Á. Löve & D. Löve
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria rossii subsp. columbiana
|authority=(Raup) Maguire
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria rossii var. columbiana
|authority=Raup
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria rossii subsp. elegans
|authority=(Chamisso & Schlechtendal) Maguire
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria rossii var. elegans
|authority=(Chamisso & Schlechtendal) S. L. Welsh
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Minuartia rossii subsp. elegans
|authority=(Chamisso & Schlechtendal) Rebristaya
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Minuartia rossii var. elegans
|authority=(Chamisso & Schlechtendal) Hultén
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia elegans
|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 elegans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 119, 120
|treatment_page=page 125
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, loosely cespitose. <b>Taproots</b> filiform to slightly thickened. <b>Stems</b> erect to arcuate-ascending, green, commonly purplish, 3–8 cm, glabrous, internodes of all stems 0.2–1.5 times as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> tightly overlapping, usually connate proximally, with ± loose, scarious sheath 0.2–0.7 mm; blade ascending to variously curved, green, commonly purplish, flat, prominently 1-veined abaxially, linear to subulate, 3–10 × 1–2 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, scarious, smooth, apex green to purple, rounded, navicular, shiny, glabrous; axillary leaves present among cauline leaves. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers, terminal; bracts linear to subulate, herbaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–4 cm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium disc-shaped; sepals 3-veined, midrib prominent, lateral veins 1/4–1/2 times as long as sepals, ovate to lanceolate (herbaceous portion ovate to lanceolate), 2–4 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex often purple, rounded to acute, not hooded, glabrous; petals oblong to obovate, 0.8–1 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, entire, rarely absent. <b>Capsules</b> on stipe ca. 0.2 mm, ellipsoid, 2–4 mm, equaling sepals. <b>Seeds</b> reddish brown, suborbiculate with radicle prolonged into rounded beak, somewhat compressed, 0.6–1 mm, tuberculate; tubercles low, rounded, elongate. <b>2n</b> = 30, 60.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Rocky talus, montane ridges and meadows, moist tundra
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;N.W.T.;Yukon;Alaska;Asia (Russian Far East;e Siberia).
|discussion=<p><i>Minuartia elegans</i> is a part of the <i>M. rossii</i> complex (S. J. Wolf et al. 1979), and is an amphi-Beringian species. The plants are tufted and are known in the flora area only from northwestern Canada and Alaska. Reports from the Pacific Northwest and southern Rocky Mountains likely are referable to <i>M. austromontana</i>.</p>
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name=Minuartia elegans
|authority=(Chamisso & Schlechtendal) Schischkin
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsinanthe elegans;Arenaria rossii subsp. columbiana;Arenaria rossii var. columbiana;Arenaria rossii subsp. elegans;Arenaria rossii var. elegans;Minuartia rossii subsp. elegans;Minuartia rossii var. elegans
|basionyms=Arenaria elegans
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Rocky talus, montane ridges and meadows, moist tundra
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;N.W.T.;Yukon;Alaska;Asia (Russian Far East;e Siberia).
|reference=None
|publication title=in V. L. Komarov et al., Fl. URSS
|publication year=1936
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia elegans
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