''Minuartia yukonensis'', the Yukon sandwort or Yukon stitchwort, is a plant species native to Yukon and

Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ...

of Canada, as well as Alaska, and The Russian Far East.

Flora of North America The ''Flora of North America North of Mexico'' (usually referred to as ''FNA'') is a multivolume work describing the native plants and naturalized plants of North America, including the United States, Canada, St. Pierre and Miquelon, and Greenla ...

and some other publications also report it from British Columbia, but more recent work shows those collections to have been misidentified. ''Minuartia yukonensis'' grows in dry, rocky meadows at elevations less than 1000 m.Flora of North America, v 5
/ref> ''Minuartia yukonensis'' is a perennial herb with a large taproot, spreading out along the ground to form low-lying mats. Stems are up to 30 cm long. Leaves are narrow and linear, up to 18m mm long but rarely more than 1.5 mm across. Flowers are born in

cymes An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed on ...

of up to 13 green to purplish cup-shaped flowers.Hultén, E. 1968. Flora of Alaska i–xxi, 1–1008. Stanford University Press, Stanford.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15572576 yukonensis Flora of the Arctic Flora of Yukon Flora of the Northwest Territories Flora of Alaska Flora of Russia Flora of British Columbia Flora without expected TNC conservation status