Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
Genus species | Stellaria irrigua Bunge |
Bibliography | Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci., St.-Pétersbourg Divers Savans 2: 548 (1835) |
Native Range | Central Asia to Russian Far East and Himalaya, Subarctic America to Mexico |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 2500-4000m |
Description | glabrous, leaves ovate-oblong, at base tapered, at apex obtuse, flowers 3-7 in terminal raceme, pedicels filiform, sepals ovate, acute, petals small, bifid |
Size | 2-3cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in early spring; cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Alsine baicalensis Coville Stellaria gonomischa B.Boivin Stellaria leiosperma Pobed. Stellaria subumbellata Edgew. Stellaria subumbellata f. villosa H.Chuang Stellaria umbellata Turcz. ex Kar. & Kir. Stellaria weberi B.Boivin Stellaria wutaica Hand.-Mazz. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan, PRM Primorye, SAK Sakhalin) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan) 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya, NEP Nepal, WHM West Himalaya) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, IDA Idaho, MNT Montana, ORE Oregon, WAS Washington, WYO Wyoming) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (ARI Arizona, CAL California, NEV Nevada, UTA Utah) 77 South-Central U.S.A. (NWM New Mexico) 79 Mexico (MXC Mexico Central, MXE Mexico Northeast, MXS Mexico Southwest) |