7, Stellaria L. Chickweed. 
Low commonly glabrous herbs with slender, often reclining or decumbent 
stems. Leaves ovate to narrowly lanceolate. Flowers in terminal cymes or 
Sepals lanceolate, subscarious, 
commonly 5. Petals white, deeply c-cleft, appearing double the actual 
tyles 5-5. Capsule ovoid, 1-chambered, 
solitary in the upper axils. 
number, often wanting, Qtamens 5-10, 
opening at the apex by as many valves as styles. 
O Stems with a conspicuous longitudinal line of 
+} pubescence 
2 Leaves 4-8 cm. lon: 
mLeaves & cme long or less 
© Stems glabrous or essentially so 
QO, ueaves 0: v.e inflore 
@or membranous ane ts 
4 Branches of the inflorescence Widely spreading, 
cence reduced to scarious 
usually horizontal, the flowers appearing 
8. mencdulous 
4 Branches of the inflorescence ascending, 
Be vedicels erect or decurved, the 
Tlowers however not appearing pendulous 
eS 
GHrect annuals 10-15 cm. tall with very 
slender stems and leaves less than 
oxy cme long 
b Perennials with weak often reclining 
stems crowing us usually amongst other 
j9 herbage ana mostly concealed by it; 
leaves 1-4 cm. long 
6 Corolla 6 me long; pedicels erect, 
2 remainins so in fruit; leaves 
mostly 1e5-£.5 mne wide 
re Corolla 4 mn. long; aa soon 
124 becoming decurved; le 
\3-5 mine Wide 
ze eoeres ox the inflorescence smaller but green a 
© nerbaceous, not membranous or scarious 
7 s eee ee eee 7 4 on 
Leaves lanceolate or elliptical to linear 
iS 4 3 
. ees av lets ef Srtde cen = % . 
oat least four tines as Long as oroaa 
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IG Buiceis erec., remalnir S30 21h 
ra 
ves mostly 
distinct, 
3 Se umbellata 
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xX Se Llonsires 
b. Se lonvsifolia 
je Longipes 
