Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
Genus species | Stellaria longipes Goldie |
Synonyms | Stellaria hultenii B.Boivin |
Stellaria monantha Hultén | |
Stellaria nitida Hook. | |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 0-3500m |
Description | trailing rootstock, leaves narrowly lanceolate, 10-25mm long, solid, usually green but as well glaucous, flowers to 1cm across, solitary or in small cymes |
Size | 10-30cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | mesic, slightly humous, sunny site alpine house, moist, rich, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in early spring; cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Northern Europe (Svalbard ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Kamchatka , Magadan ) Northern America Subarctic America (Alaska , Greenland , Nunavut , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , Saskatchewan ) Eastern Canada (Labrador , New Brunswick , Newfoundland , Ontario , Québec ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Colorado , Idaho , Montana , Oregon , Washington , Wyoming ) North-Central U.S.A. (Minnesota , North Dakota , South Dakota ) Northeastern U.S.A. (Michigan , New York ) Southwestern U.S.A. (Arizona , California , Utah ) South-Central U.S.A. (New Mexico) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | CARYOPHYLLACEAE
longipes arenicola (Raup) C.C.Chinnappa & J.K.Morton, Rhodora 93: 132 (1991)
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