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Stellaria
''Stellaria'' is a genus of about 190 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution. Common names include starwort, stitchwort and chickweed. Description ''Stellaria'' species are relatively small herbs with simple opposite leaves. It produces small flowers with 5 sepals and 5 white petals each usually deeply cleft, or none at all, all free. Stamens 10 or fewer.Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. and Warburg, E.F. 1968. ''Excursion Flora of the British Isles''. Uses Some species, including '' Stellaria media'' which is widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, are used as leaf vegetables, often raw in salads. This is a favored food of finches and many other seed-eating birds. Chickweeds are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including angle shades, heart and dart, riband wave, setaceous Hebrew character and the ''Coleophora'' case-bearers ''C. coenosipennella'' (feeds exclusively on ''Stellaria'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stellaria Media
''Stellaria media'', chickweed, is an annual flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to Eurasia and naturalized throughout the world, where it is a weed of waste ground, farmland and gardens. It is sometimes grown as a salad crop or for poultry consumption. Description Chickweed is a hardy annual which flowers throughout the year in northern Europe, in mild weather. The stems are terete and glabrous with a lax and sprawling growth habit, up to long and in diameter, with a line (very occasionally 2 lines) of hairs running straight down its length, alternating sides at the nodes. The petioles are 5 to 8 mm long with hairy margins. The leaves are green, hairless, oval and opposite, long by wide with a hydathode at the tip. The flowers are small, less than 1 cm in diameter, with 5 white petals, 1–3 mm long, nestled inside the larger (3–5 mm long) sepals. These sepals have long, wavyvillous hairs on their outer (distal) sides and are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Stitchwort
''Rabelera holostea'', known as greater stitchwort, greater starwort, and addersmeat, is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It was formerly placed in the genus ''Stellaria'', as ''Stellaria holostea'', but was transferred to the genus ''Rabelera'' in 2019 based on phylogenetic analyses. It is the only species in the genus ''Rabelera''. Greater stitchwort is native to Western and Central Europe, including the British Isles. Greater stichwort can be found in woodlands, edges, and open fields and is sometimes grown in gardens. Description Greater stitchwort can grow up to in height, with roughly 4-angled stems. The long, narrow (lanceolate) leaves are greyish green, hairless, sessile, opposite, and decussate (the successive pairs borne at right angles to each other). The flowers are white, across, with five petals split to about halfway the length of the petal. The sepals are much shorter than the petals. Taxonomy Etymology The specific epith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stellaria Alsine
''Stellaria alsine'', the bog stitchwort, is a species of herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the carnation family Caryophyllaceae. It grows in bogs and marshes in Europe and parts of North America. Description Bog stitchwort is a rhizomatous perennial plant, with smooth, four-angled stems up to tall. Its leaves are opposite and narrow, up to long, with untoothed margins but a few marginal hairs towards the leaf-base. The flowers are borne in cymes of 1–5, arising from the axils of the higher leaves. Each flower is around in diameter, with 10 stamens, 3 stigmas, five lanceolate–triangular, green-coloured but scarious-margined sepals, and five slightly shorter white petals. The petals are divided into two almost to their base with the two halves angled apart, so that the two halves of each petal lie over parts of adjacent sepals. Ecology Bog stitchwort grows in various types of wetland A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
