Stellaria obtusa |
Stellaria calycantha |
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blunt-sepal starwort, obtuse starwort, Rocky Mountain chickweed, Rocky Mountain starwort |
northern bog starwort, northern bogwort, northern starwort |
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Habit | Plants perennial, creeping, often matted but not forming cushions, rhizomatous. | Plants perennial, forming clumps, from slender rhizomes. |
Stems | prostrate, branched, 4-sided, 3–23 cm, internodes equaling or longer than leaves, glabrous, rarely pilose. |
erect or trailing, branched, square, weak, to 25(–35) cm, glabrous or pilose, never papillate. |
Leaves | sessile or short-petiolate; blade broadly ovate to elliptic, 0.2–1.2 cm × 0.9–7 mm, base round or cuneate, margins entire, apex acute, shiny, glabrous or ciliate near base. |
sessile or subsessile; blade ovate to elliptic, rarely oblong, widest proximal to middle, 5–25 mm, thin, base round, margins entire, apex acute, glabrous or rarely ciliate. |
Inflorescences | with flowers solitary, axillary; bracts absent. |
terminal, 1–5-flowered cymes; bracts foliaceous. |
Pedicels | spreading, 3–12 mm, glabrous. |
ascending, not reflexed, 5–25(–50) mm, glabrous. |
Flowers | 1.5–2 mm diam.; sepals 4–5, veins obscure, midrib sometimes apparent, ± ovate, 1.5–3.5 mm, margins narrow, scarious, apex ± obtuse, glabrous; petals absent; stamens 10 or fewer; styles 3(–4), curled, shorter than 0.5 mm. |
3–5 mm; sepals 5, obscurely veined, ovate, 2–2.5 mm (rarely 3.5 in fruit), margins broad, scarious, apex broadly acute, glabrous; petals absent or 1–5, 1–1.5 mm, shorter than sepals, blade apex deeply lobed; stamens 5; styles 3, usually curved, 0.4–0.9 mm. |
Capsules | green to pale straw colored, translucent, globose to broadly ovoid, 2.3–3.5 mm, 1.9–2 times as long as sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 6 valves; carpophore absent. |
green, semitransparent, globose to broadly ovoid, 3–5 mm, to 1.5 times as long as broad, longer than sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 3 valves; carpophore absent. |
Seeds | grayish black, broadly elliptic, 0.5–0.7 mm diam., finely reticulate. |
brown, ovate, 0.5–0.9 mm, smooth or shallowly tuberculate. |
2n | = 26, 52, ca. 65, ca. 78. |
= 26. |
Stellaria obtusa |
Stellaria calycantha |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Moist areas in woods, shaded edges of creeks, talus slopes | Alpine slopes, meadows, shores of lakes and streams |
Elevation | 300-3400 m (1000-11200 ft) | 0-3700 m (0-12100 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; CO; ID; MT; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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AK; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT; Asia (Russian Far East)
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Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 110. | FNA vol. 5, p. 102. |
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Alsinoideae > Stellaria | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Alsinoideae > Stellaria |
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Synonyms | Alsine obtusa, Alsine viridula, Alsine washingtoniana, S. viridula, S. washingtoniana | Arenaria calycantha, Alsine calycantha, Alsine simcoei, S. borealis var. simcoei, S. calycantha var. simcoei, S. simcoei |
Name authority | Engelmann: Bot. Gaz. 7: 5. (1882) | (Ledebour) Bongard: Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, Sér. 6, Sci. Math. 2: 127. (1833) |
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