Stellaria longipes |
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Goldie's starwort, long-stalk starwort |
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Habit | Plants perennial, forming small to large clumps or mats, or diffuse, from slender rhizomes. | ||||
Stems | erect to straggling, branched or not, 4-angled, 3–32 cm, glabrous or softly pubescent, angles not minutely papillate-scabrid. |
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Leaves | sessile; blade green, frequently glaucous, 1–3-veined, midrib prominent, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, widest at base, 0.4–2.6(–4) cm × 1–4 mm, strongly coriaceous or not, base round, margins entire, convex, glabrous or ciliate, apex acute to acuminate, not spinescent, shiny, smooth, glabrous or sparingly villous, base usually glabrous, rarely with few cilia. |
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Inflorescences | with flowers solitary, or terminal, 3–30-flowered (rarely more) cymes; bracts lanceolate, 2–10 mm, herbaceous with scarious margins, or scarious throughout, glabrous or ciliate. |
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Pedicels | ascending to erect, straight, 5–30 mm, glabrous or softly pubescent. |
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Flowers | 5–10 mm diam.; sepals 5, 3-veined, midrib prominent, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 3.5–5 mm, margins convex, narrow, scarious, sometimes ciliate, apex acute, glabrous or pubescent; petals 5, 3–8 mm, 1–1.5 times as long as sepals; stamens 5–10; styles 3(–6), ascending, curled at tip, ca. 1.5 mm. |
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Capsules | blackish purple or straw colored, ovoid to ovoid-lanceoloid, 4–6 mm, 1.5–2 times as long as sepals, apex broadly acute, opening by 6 valves; carpophore absent. |
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Seeds | brown, reniform to globose, 0.6–0.9 mm diam., shallowly tuberculate to smooth. |
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2n | = 52–104, (107). |
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Stellaria longipes |
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Distribution |
AK; AZ; CA; CO; ID; MI; MN; MT; ND; NM; NY; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT; Circumpolar
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 108. | ||||
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Alsinoideae > Stellaria | ||||
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Synonyms | Alsine longipes | ||||
Name authority | Goldie: Edinburgh Philos. J. 6: 327. (1822) | ||||
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