Stellaria 



Caryophyllaceae 



437 



o ~3o 

 Map 895 



Stellaria graminea L. 



50 

 Map 896 



Stellaria longifolia Muhl 



50 



Map 897 



Stellaria pubera Mlchx. 



Plants generally 1-3 dm high, erect; inflorescence few-flowered, generally much 

 less than half the length of the plant, branches erect; margins of sepals not 



pubescent. (See excluded species no. 218, p. 1045.) S. longipes. 



Median leaves widest above the middle, linear 2. S. longifolia. 



Plants pubescent in lines. 



Leaves oblong, oblong-lanceolate, ovate-oblong or oval, mostly 2-10 cm long; petals 



longer than the sepals or equal or shorter in the variety of no. 3; stamens 10. 



Median leaves of both sterile and flowering shoots sessile or subsessile; sepals 



4-6 mm long, obtuse or acutish, shorter than the petals, inconspicuously, if at 



all, ciliate 3. S. pubera. 



Median leaves of sterile shoots abruptly contracted into petioles 1-2 cm long; 

 sepals 7.5-11 mm long, acute or acuminate, equaling or exceeding the petals, at 



least the outer ones conspicuously ciliate on the lower half 



3a. S. pubera var. silvatica. 



Leaves ovate, sometimes very narrowly so or oval, all but the upper ones more 

 or less petiolate; blades 7-40 mm long; stamens 5 4. S. media. 



1. Stellaria graminea L. (Alsine graminea (L.) Britt.) Map 895. 

 I found this species in La Porte County on the bank of a ditch west of the 

 State Prison ; in Porter County, I found a colony about 4 feet in diameter 

 on the embankment of the New York Central Railroad about 3 miles west 

 of Porter; and in Wells County I found it to be a common weed in the 

 Six-mile Cemetery. It has been reported also from Lake County. A 

 specimen from Jasper County so labeled in the herbarium of DePauw 

 University proves to be Stellaria longifolia. 



Nat. of Eurasia; Newf. to Ont. and Minn., southw. to Iowa and Md. 



2. Stellaria longifolia Muhl. (Alsine long folia (Muhl.) Britt.) Long- 

 leaf Stichwort. Map 896. Infrequent to rare throughout the state in 

 low or moist woodland and marshes, on the low borders of lakes, and 

 rarely in the open along ditches. 



Newf. to Alaska, southw. to Md., Ky., and La. and in the Rocky Mts. ; 

 also in n. Eu. and Asia. 



