Leaves straight or slightly recurved, 5–7 mm, tips acute to acuminate.
Flowers sepals lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, veins (1)3, equally prominent, tips acuminate; petals 0.5–1.2 × length of sepals.
Bare talus slopes. Flowering May–Aug. 800–3000 m. BW, Lava, Owy. ID, WA; north to British Columbia, east to CO. Native.
as described under Minuartia nuttallii var. nuttallii
Leaves closely appressed to prom-inently arcuate; blade 7-11 mm, apex acute to acuminate, navic-ular, with small mucro, not spine-tipped. Flowers: sepals promi-nently 1(-3)-veined, lance-olate to narrowly so (herbaceous portion lanceolate to narrowly so), 3.5-5.5(-7) mm, apex acuminate; petals 0.5-1.2 times as long as sepals. 2n = 36.Flowering spring-summer. Sandy and rocky slopes and ridges, chaparral, open pine woodlands, alpine slopes; 600-3800 m; Alta., B.C.; Colo., Idaho, Mont., Oreg., Utah, Wash., Wyo.