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|accepted_name=Minuartia cumberlandensis
|accepted_authority=(Wofford & Kral) McNeill
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=82: 498. 1980
|year=1980
}}
|common_names=Cumberland stitchwort
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Arenaria cumberlandensis
|authority=Wofford & Kral
|rank=species
|publication_title=Brittonia
|publication_place=31: 257, fig. 1. 1979
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia cumberlandensis
|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 cumberlandensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 116, 119
|treatment_page=page 123
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose from decumbent bases. <b>Taproots</b> filiform; basal offshoots present. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, green, (8–)10–15(–20) cm, glabrous, internodes of flowering stems 0.8–1.2 times as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> overlapping proximally, variably spaced distally, connate proximally, with ± loose, scarious sheath 0.1–0.2 mm; blade spreading or ascending to outwardly curved, green, flat, 1-veined, linear-oblanceolate to linear-spatulate, (10–)20–30(–40) × 1–3 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, minutely scarious, smooth, apex green, obtuse to broadly acute, shiny, glabrous, axillary leaves absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> flowers solitary, terminal, or 1–3-flowered cymes; bracts narrowly lanceolate, herbaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> 12–30 cm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium dish-shaped; sepals very weakly 3-veined, broadly oblong (herbaceous portion broadly oblong), 2–3 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex green, obtuse or rounded, not hooded, glabrous; petals oblong or obovate, 1.6–2 times as long as sepals, apex rounded to truncate, entire or slightly emarginate. <b>Capsules</b> broadly ovoid, (2–)3–3.5 mm, equaling or longer than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> reddish brown, asymmetrically reniform with radicle prolonged into beak, not compressed, 0.5–0.7 mm, reticulate. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Shaded sand-rock ledges and bluffs
|elevation=400-600 m
|distribution=Ky.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Minuartia cumberlandensis</i> may be most closely related to <i>M. groenlandica</i> and <i>M. glabra</i>; R. Kral (1983) noted that it may be distinguished from either of those taxa by leaf size and shape, seed sculpture, phenology, and habitat preference (shaded sandstone versus sunny granitic flat-rocks).</p><!--
--><p><i>Minuartia cumberlandensis</i> is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.</p>
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name=Minuartia cumberlandensis
|authority=(Wofford & Kral) McNeill
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Arenaria cumberlandensis
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Shaded sand-rock ledges and bluffs
|elevation=400-600 m
|distribution=Ky.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1980
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia cumberlandensis
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