Minuartia nuttallii

Minuartia nuttallii is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names Nuttall's sandwort and brittle sandwort.

Minuartia nuttallii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Minuartia
Species:
M. nuttallii
Binomial name
Minuartia nuttallii
Synonyms
  • Arenaria nuttallii
  • Sabulina nuttallii

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.


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