Stellaria graminea L.

• 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 graminea L.

• Description

  Species Description - Perennial; stems weak, 3–5 dm, glabrous or sometimes scabrous on the 4 prominent angles; lvs 1.5–5 cm × 1.5–7 mm, linear to lance-linear, often ciliate at base; infl terminal, diffuse, often extending half-way to the base; bracts scarious, ciliolate at the base; pedicels slender, spreading or reflexed; sep lanceolate, acute or acuminate, strongly 3-nerved, 4.5–5.5 mm in fr, the margins scarious, commonly ciliolate at least at base; pet shorter than to barely surpassing the sep, bifid almost to the base; fr stramineous, about equaling or somewhat surpassing the sep; seeds 0.8–1.2 mm, oblong-subreniform or orbicular-subreniform, coarsely rugose-tuberculate; 2n=26, 39. Native of Europe, intr. in grassy places, fields, roadsides, etc., from Nf. and Que. to Minn., s. to S.C. and Kans. May–July. (Alsine g.)

• Common Names

  common stitchwort