Pseudostellaria jamesiana |
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sticky starwort, tuber starwort, tubered starwort |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Meadows, sagebrush-grasslands, dry understory of aspen and coniferous forests |
Elevation | 600-3400 m. (2000-11200 ft.) |
Distribution |
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 |
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Synonyms | Stellaria jamesiana, Alsine glutinosa, Arenaria jamesiana |
Name authority | (Torrey) W. A. Weber & R. L. Hartman: Phytologia 44: 314. (1979) |
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