Stellaria crassifolia Ehrh.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Caryophyllaceae

• Scientific Name

  Stellaria crassifolia Ehrh.

• Description

  Species Description - Low, matted or erect, somewhat fleshy, glabrous perennial 1–2 dm; lvs soft, lanceolate or lance-elliptic, 1–2 cm × 1–2.5 mm, usually shorter than the internodes; fls mostly solitary, usually nodding; pedicels subcapillary, 1–2 cm; sep at anthesis mostly 2–3(3.3) mm, lanceolate, obtuse or acutish; pet surpassing the sep; fr ovoid, distinctly surpassing the sep; seeds 0.8 mm, oblong-orbicular, obviously (but not strongly) concentrically rugose-tuberculate; 2n=26. Streamsides, marshes, and other cold, wet places, mainly inland, but sometimes encroaching into the habitat of no. 11 [Stellaria humifusa Rottb.]; circumboreal, s. in Amer. to the Gaspé peninsula, Mich., Minn., Colo., and Calif. June–Aug. (Alsine c.)

• Common Names

  salt-marsh stitchwort