Stellaria alsine Grimm

• 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 alsine Grimm

• Description

  Species Description - Slender perennial with decumbent or ascending, glabrous, angled stems, often rooting at the nodes; lvs mostly 1.5–3 cm × 1.5–6(–10) mm, elliptic to oblanceolate or linear-oblong, acute, the upper sessile, the lower petiolate, glabrous except for the basally ciliate margins; cymes axillary, few-fld; bracts tiny, narrowly lanceolate, scarious; pedicels slender, clavate at the summit; fls with a definite short hypanthium; sep 2.5–3.5 mm, narrowly lanceolate, acute; pet shorter than the sep; fr ovoid, ± exceeding the sep; seeds 0.5–0.7 mm, obovate, somewhat caudate, strongly papillate or rugose-papillate; 2n=24, 26. Cold marshes, streams, and springs; Nf. and Que. to Md. and W.Va., and occasionally elsewhere in our range; widespread in Eurasia and perhaps only intr. with us, but appearing native. May–Aug. (Alsine uliginosa)

• Common Names

  bog-stitchwort