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sticky starwort, tuber starwort, tubered starwort

Rhizomes

with spherical or elongate tuberous thickenings 0.5–2.5 cm.

Stems

4-angled, 12–45(–60) cm, glabrous or stipitate-glandular throughout or at least in inflorescence, often densely so.

Leaf

blades linear to linear-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, (1.5–)2–10(–15) × 0.2–1.5(–2) cm, margins flat to briefly revolute, ± smooth or granular to serrulate, glabrous or stipitate-glandular.

Inflorescences

open cymes, flowers often proliferating with age.

Pedicels

recurved to reflexed from base in fruit, uniformly stipitate-glandular.

Flowers

sepals lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 3–5.5(–7) × 0.8–2 mm, stipitate-glandular, often densely so;

petals 7–9.5 × 3–4 mm, apex notch 1–2 mm deep, lobes broadly rounded;

anthers 10, purple;

styles 3.5–4.5 mm;

stigmas terminal, 0.1–0.2 mm.

Capsules

4.5–5 mm.

Seeds

1–3, reddish brown, broadly elliptic, ± plump, 2–3.4 mm;

tubercles conic to elongate, rounded.

2n

= 96.

Pseudostellaria jamesiana

Phenology Flowering summer.
Habitat Meadows, sagebrush-grasslands, dry understory of aspen and coniferous forests
Elevation 600-3400 m. (2000-11200 ft.)
Distribution
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AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; TX; UT; WA; WY
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Source FNA vol. 5, p. 115.
Parent taxa Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Alsinoideae > Pseudostellaria
Sibling taxa
P. oxyphylla, P. sierrae
Synonyms Stellaria jamesiana, Alsine glutinosa, Arenaria jamesiana
Name authority (Torrey) W. A. Weber & R. L. Hartman: Phytologia 44: 314. (1979)
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