Stellaria graminea L.

CARYOPHYLLACEAE

- Pink family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Stellaria graminea L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 422 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Grass-like starwort

English name: common stitchwort

English name: grass-leaf starwort

French name: mouron des champs

Italian name: Centocchio gramignola

German name: Gras-Sternmiere

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Alsine graminea (L.) Britton
= Stellaria graminea L. var. latifolia Peterm.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Stellaria graminea L. var. latifolia Peterm.

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Stellaria
Species:

Page counter: 536 ( AVG: 222.04 / 291.086 )

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Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Stellaria graminea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Cima del Monte Matajur, nei pressi del Rifugio Pelizzo, Valli del Natisone., UD, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Stellaria graminea
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Stellaria graminea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Ampezzo, Passo del Pura, nei pressi dello stagno., UD, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Stellaria graminea
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Stellaria graminea
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Stellaria graminea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trento, pendici prative del Monte Bondone, nei pressi di Sopramonte., TN, Trentino Alto- Adige, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Stellaria graminea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

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Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Stellaria graminea
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 45.

Stellaria graminea
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Stellaria graminea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Stellaria graminea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Ampezzo, Passo del Pura, UD, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di San Dorligo/Dolina, località Pesek, pendici del Monte Cocusso. , TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Stellaria graminea
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Stellaria graminea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Stellaria graminea
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV), CAN (BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Stellaria graminea L.
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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Stellaria holostea L. [3142]
2) Stellaria hultenii B. Boivin [133]
3) Stellaria humifusa Rottb. var. oblongifolia Fenzl [152]
4) Stellaria jamesiana Torr. [148]
5) Stellaria laeta Richardson [137]
6) Stellaria longifolia Muhl. ex Willd. [379]
7) Stellaria longipes Goldie ssp. monantha (Hultén) W.A. Weber [140]
8) Stellaria longipes Goldie var. monantha (Hultén) S.L. Welsh [141]
9) Stellaria media (L.) Vill. var. procera Klett & Richt. [139]
10) Stellaria nuttallii Torr. & A. Gray [147]

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