Sabulina howellii

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Sabulina howellii - Chloe and Trevor Van Loon 05.jpg

|status = {{TNCStatus}}

|status_system = TNC

|status_ref = {{cite web |last1=NatureServe |title=Minuartia howellii |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.134504/Minuartia_howellii |access-date=19 January 2024 |location=Arlington, Virginia |date=2024}}

|genus = Sabulina (plant)

|species = howellii

|authority = (S.Watson) Dillenb. & Kadereit (2014)

|synonyms =

  • Alsinopsis howellii {{small|(S.Watson) A.Heller (1912)}}
  • Arenaria howellii {{small|S.Watson (1885)}}
  • Minuartia howellii {{small|(S.Watson) Mattf. (1921)}}

|synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77137534-1 Sabulina howellii (S.Watson) Dillenb. & Kadereit]. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 March 2024.

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Sabulina howellii is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names Howell's stitchwort and Howell's sandwort.

It is native to the Klamath Mountains of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon. It grows in serpentine soils in chaparral and woodland habitat.

Description

Sabulina howellii is a slightly hairy annual herb growing to a maximum height of 30 centimeters with a slender green stem which turns purple with age.

The thin, rigid, almost needlelike leaves are linear or narrowly lance-shaped, up to 1.5 centimeters long and under 2 millimeters wide.

The tiny flower has five white petals each a few millimeters long and smaller, ribbed sepals.

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