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Stellaria corei
Stellaria corei
Shinners
Family:
Caryophyllaceae
Tennessee Starwort
[
Stellaria puber subsp. silvatica
,
more
Stellaria pubera var. silvatica
(Bég.) Weath.,
Stellaria silvatica
(Bég.) Maguire
]
William Thomas
FNA
Indiana Flora
Resources
John K. Morton in Flora of North America (vol. 5)
Plants
perennial, rhizomatous.
Stems
erect, branched, square, 10-40 cm, with alternating lines of soft, spreading, flexuous, mainly eglandular hairs.
Leaves
petiolate (proximal) or subsessile (distal); blade elliptic, broadly lanceolate to ovate, 1-5 cm × 5-16 mm, base cuneate, margins entire, apex acute, glabrous, sparsely pubescent adaxially on midrib.
Inflorescences
terminal, 3-7-flowered, cymes dichotomously branched; bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, 5-30 mm, soft, margins entire, distal ones ciliate on margins and adaxial vein.
Pedicels
erect, 5-45 mm, softly pubescent.
Flowers
10-16 mm diam.; sepals 5, obscurely veined, narrowly triangular, (5-)7-10(-12) mm, margins narrow, membranous, apex acuminate, glabrous or with shortly ciliate margins; petals 5, equaling to slightly shorter than sepals; stamens 10; styles 3, ascending, ca. 2.5 mm.
Capsules
straw colored to pale brown, broadly ovoid, ca. 5 mm, shorter than sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 3 valves; carpophore absent.
Seeds
brown, broadly reniform, ca. 2 mm diam., coarsely sulcate-papillate.
2
n
= 60.
Flowering spring. Rocky woods; 300-1000 m; Ala., Conn., Ind., Ky., Miss., N.C., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., Va., W.Va.
Stellaria corei
has been introduced in Connecticut. It is very similar to
S. pubera
but differs in its long-acuminate sepals.
From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam
Local in a few counties along the Ohio River. Found in habitats similar to those of the species.
……
Indiana Coefficient of Conservatism: C = 9
Wetland Indicator Status: N/A
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