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Sabulina nuttallii

(synonym of Minuartia nuttallii)

Nuttall's sandwort
Habit Plants perennial; rhizomes elongate and stems or stolons trailing; taproots woody.
Stems

2–20 cm; mat-forming, flowering stems ascending to erect, trailing stems to 60 cm, green, densely stipitate-glandular.
Leaves

needle-like to subulate, 5–20 × 0.3–1.5 mm; straight-appressed to arcuate-spreading; rigid, evenly spaced, 1-veined below;

axillary leaves present.
Inflorescences

(3)6–30-flowered;

pedicels stipitate-glandular.
Flowers

sepals 3.5–7 mm, stipitate-glandular;

veins 1 or 3;

petals 0.7–1.6 × length of sepals.
Seeds

oblong, 1.5–2.2 mm, red-brown to dark brown, tuberculate, not winged.

Sabulina nuttallii
Distribution
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Discussion

4 varieties.
Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 561
Rich Rabeler, Ronald Hartman
Sibling taxa
S. austromontana, S. californica, S. cismontana, S. douglasii, S. howellii, S. macra, S. nuttallii, S. pusilla, S. rubella
Subordinate taxa
S. nuttallii var. fragilis, S. nuttallii var. gracilis, S. nuttallii var. gregaria, S. nuttallii var. nuttallii
Synonyms Arenaria nuttallii, Minuartia nuttallii
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