Minuartia
Minuartia is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as sandworts in the family Caryophyllaceae.
Minuartias are small annual or perennial plants which grow in otherwise inhospitable conditions such as on rocky ledges and in stony soil. Species are distributed in Eurasia and parts of Africa, including Europe, the Mediterranean region, northern and eastern Africa, the Caucasus, western and central Asia, Japan, and Far Eastern Russia.
Many Minuartia species were formerly classed in the genus Arenaria, and the obsolete genus Alsine. In 2014, the polyphyletic Minuartia ''sensu lato was recircumscribed, with many of the species transferred to other genera, including Cherleria, Eremogone, Facchinia, Mcneillia, Minuartiella, Mononeuria, Pseudocherleria, Rhodalsine, Sabulina, and Triplateia. Minuartia sensu stricto'' is characterized by the following features: leaves linear-setaceous; 5 acute sepals with 3, 5, or 9-veins; 5 white petals; 3 styles, forming 3-parted capsules.
The genus was named for Juan Minuart, a Spanish botanist and pharmacist.
Species
67 species are accepted.- Minuartia abchasica
- Minuartia adenotricha
- Minuartia aksoyi
- Minuartia alpuensis
- Minuartia anatolica
- Minuartia athoa
- Minuartia bosniaca – Bosnian sandwort
- Minuartia bulgarica
- Minuartia buschiana
- Minuartia campestris
- Minuartia confusa
- Minuartia corymbulosa
- Minuartia cymifera
- Minuartia decipiens
- Minuartia dichotoma
- Minuartia ebracteolata
- Minuartia ellenbeckii
- Minuartia erythrosepala
- Minuartia eurytanica
- Minuartia euxina
- Minuartia filifolia
- Minuartia funkii
- Minuartia globulosa
- Minuartia glomerata
- Minuartia granuliflora
- Minuartia greuteriana
- Minuartia hamata
- Minuartia hamzaoglui
- Minuartia hirsuta
- Minuartia hondoensis
- Minuartia innominata
- Minuartia intermedia
- Minuartia isaurica
- Minuartia kitanovii
- Minuartia krascheninnikovii
- Minuartia lanuginosa
- Minuartia leucocephala
- Minuartia leucocephaloides
- Minuartia libanotica
- Minuartia mairei
- Minuartia meyeri
- Minuartia micrantha
- Minuartia montana
- Minuartia mucronata
- Minuartia multinervis
- Minuartia nifensis
- Minuartia palyzanica
- Minuartia parvulorum
- Minuartia pauciflora
- Minuartia perdita
- Minuartia recurva – recurved sandwort, sickle-leaved sandwort
- Minuartia rostrata
- Minuartia rumelica
- Minuartia sandwithii
- Minuartia sclerantha
- Minuartia setacea
- Minuartia sintenisii – Troodos sandwort
- Minuartia smejkalii
- Minuartia stereoneura
- Minuartia stojanovii
- Minuartia strandjensis
- Minuartia tchihatchewii
- Minuartia tenuissima
- Minuartia torosensis
- Minuartia tricostata
- Minuartia turcica
- Minuartia valedictionis
- ''Minuartia woronowii''
Formerly placed here
- Cherleria arctica – Arctic sandwort
- Cherleria biflora – mountain sandwort
- Cherleria dirphya
- Cherleria laricifolia
- Cherleria marcescens – serpentine sandwort
- Cherleria obtusiloba – twinflower sandwort
- Cherleria sedoides
- Cherleria yukonensis – Yukon sandwort
- Facchinia cherlerioides
- Geocarpon carolinianum – pinebarren sandwort
- Geocarpon cumberlandense – Cumberland sandwort
- Geocarpon glabrum – Appalachian sandwort
- Geocarpon groenlandicum – Greenland stitchwort, mountain sandwort
- Geocarpon nuttallii – Drummond's sandwort
- Geocarpon uniflorum
- Mcneillia graminifolia
- Pseudocherleria macrocarpa – longpod sandwort
- Sabulina austromontana – Columbian sandwort
- Sabulina californica – California sandwort
- Sabulina cismontana
- Sabulina dawsonensis – rock sandwort
- Sabulina decumbens – Lassicus sandwort
- Sabulina douglasii – Douglas' sandwort
- Sabulina elegans
- Sabulina howellii – Howell's sandwort
- Sabulina juniperina
- Sabulina macrantha – House's sandwort or threadbranch sandwort
- Sabulina michauxii – rock sandwort
- Sabulina muscorum – Dixie sandwort
- Sabulina nuttallii – Nuttall's sandwort
- Sabulina paludicola – Godfrey's sandwort
- Sabulina patula – pitcher's sandwort
- Sabulina pusilla – annual sandwort
- Sabulina rosei – peanut sandwort
- Sabulina rossii – Ross' sandwort
- Sabulina rubella
- Sabulina stolonifera
- Sabulina stricta – bog sandwort
- Sabulina verna – spring sandwort
- ''Sabulina viscosa''