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|accepted_name=Minuartia patula
|accepted_authority=(Michaux) Mattfeld
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|place=57(Beibl. 126): 28. 1921
|year=1921
}}
|common_names=Pitcher’s stitchwort
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Arenaria patula
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication_place=1: 273. 1803
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsinopsis patula
|authority=(Michaux) Small
|rank=species
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|name=Alsinopsis pitcheri
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
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|name=Sabulina patula
|authority=(Michaux) Small ex Rydberg
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia patula
|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 patula]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 118, 126, 129
|treatment_page=page 131
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>winter annual or annual. <b>Taproots</b> filiform. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, green, 5–30 cm, glabrous or sometimes stipitate-glandular distally or throughout, internodes of all stems 1–7 times as long as leaves; wintering stems absent. <b>Leaves</b> overlapping proximally, connate proximally, with loose, scarious to herbaceous sheath 0.1–0.5 mm; blade straight to variously curved, green, flat, prominently 1-veined abaxially, linear, 2–20 × 0.5–1.5(–1.8) mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, herbaceous, smooth, apex green or purple, blunt to acute, flat, ± shiny, glabrous to stipitate-glandular; axillary leaves absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 5–30-flowered, open cymes; bracts subulate to ovate, herbaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.3–3 cm, stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium shallowly disc-shaped; sepals prominently (3- or) 5-veined, narrowly to broadly lanceolate (herbaceous portion narrowly to broadly lanceolate), 4–5.5 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex green or purple, narrowly acute to acuminate, not hooded, glabrous to sparsely stipitate-glandular; petals obovate, 1.5–2.2(–3) times as long as sepals, apex rounded, broadly notched. <b>Capsules</b> on stipe ca. 0.1 mm or shorter, narrowly ellipsoid, 3–4.2 mm, shorter than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> reddish brown to black, suborbiculate, radicle obscure, slightly compressed, 0.5–0.6 mm, tuberculate; tubercles low, rounded.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Prairies, meadows, limestone barrens, and rocky outcrops in sandy, clayey, or gravelly soils
|elevation=0-500
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Minuartia patula</i> and the related <i>M. muscorum</i> have received little attention in comparison to the granite-outcrop minuartias, the <i>M. uniflora</i> complex. J. A. Steyermark (1941) studied these taxa and described three forms, based chiefly on pubescence variation. Plants entirely glabrous [forma pitcheri (Nuttall) Steyermark] and those with sepals and pedicels somewhat stipitate-glandular (forma media Steyermark) were segregated from densely stipitate-glandular plants (forma patula). We do not feel that such variations deserve formal taxonomic recognition. Forma robusta, as defined by Steyermark, is here referred to <i>M. muscorum</i>.</p><!--
--><p>Most specimens of <i>Minuartia patula</i> have prominently five-veined sepals (seen especially easily in the glabrous forms); occasional plants from Georgia, Kentucky, and Virginia have glabrous sepals with only three strong veins, resembling those of <i>M. muscorum</i>; in other features, including the seeds, they are clearly referable to <i>M. patula</i>. The status of the plants with three-veined sepals remains ambiguous; J. A. Steyermark (1941) included them in his forma media and B. Maguire (1951) included them (in our opinion incorrectly) in his <i></i>var.<i> robusta</i>.</p>
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name=Minuartia patula
|authority=(Michaux) Mattfeld
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsinopsis patula;Alsinopsis pitcheri;Sabulina patula
|basionyms=Arenaria patula
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Prairies, meadows, limestone barrens, and rocky outcrops in sandy, clayey, or gravelly soils
|elevation=0-500
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|publication year=1921
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia patula
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