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§1 Plant

Minuartia glabra (Michx.) Mattf.

vernacular Appalachian stitchwort — species · Caryophyllaceae


USDA
MIGL5
GBIF
12218920 syn.
Rank
species
Appalachian stitchwort (Minuartia glabra)
Platephotograph · Douglas GoldmanCC BY-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Caryophyllaceae Juss.
Genus
Minuartia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 66 counties across 14 states/territories
Legend Native · 66 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 66 counties across 14 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 3 N
Georgia view state ↗ 8 N
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 N
Maine view state ↗ 5 N
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 N
New York view state ↗ 4 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 12 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 5 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 12 N
Virginia view state ↗ 2 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/MIGL5 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/12218920 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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