Stellaria crispa |
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crisp sandwort, crisp starwort, crisped starwort, curled starwort, ruffled starwort |
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Habit | Plants perennial, forming small to large mats, from slender rhizomes. |
Stems | trailing to ascending, branched, 4-angled, 10–60 cm, glabrous. |
Leaves | subsessile; blade broadly elliptic to ovate, 0.4–2.6 cm × 2–15 mm, base round to cuneate, margins entire, apex acuminate, glabrous or with a few scattered cilia. |
Inflorescences | with flowers solitary in leaf axils; bracts absent. |
Pedicels | ascending, straight, mostly 5–30 mm, glabrous. |
Flowers | 4–5 mm; sepals 5, prominently 3-veined, lanceolate, 2–4 mm, margins broadly scarious, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous; petals usually absent, rarely 1–5 and much shorter than sepals; stamens 10 or fewer; styles 3, spreading to ascending, curved but not curled, ca. 1 mm. |
Capsules | straw colored or brownish, ovoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 3.5–6 mm, equaling or slightly exceeding sepals, apex broadly acute, opening by 6 valves; carpophore absent. |
Seeds | brown, broadly elliptic, 0.7–1 mm (longest axis), distinctly rugose. |
2n | = 26, 52. |
Stellaria crispa |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Wet soil in woods, shaded streambanks and shores |
Elevation | 0-2300 m (0-7500 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; AB; BC
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Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 104. |
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Alsinoideae > Stellaria |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Alsine crispa, S. borealis var. crispa |
Name authority | Chamisso & Schlechtendal: Linnaea 1: 51. (1826) |
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