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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Stellaria corei
|accepted_authority=Shinners
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=1: 103. 1962
|year=1962
}}
|common_names=Tennessee chickweed
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Stellaria pubera subsp. silvatica
|authority=Béguinot
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsine tennesseensis
|authority=(C. Mohr) Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Stellaria pubera var. silvatica
|authority=(Béguinot) Weatherby
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Stellaria silvatica
|authority=(C. Mohr) Strausbaugh & Core
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Stellaria tennesseensis
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Stellaria;Stellaria corei
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Stellaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Stellaria corei]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 97, 112
|treatment_page=page 103
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched, square, 10–40 cm, with alternating lines of soft, spreading, flexuous, mainly eglandular hairs. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate (proximal) or subsessile (distal); blade elliptic, broadly lanceolate to ovate, 1–5 cm × 5–16 mm, base cuneate, margins entire, apex acute, glabrous, sparsely pubescent adaxially on midrib. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, 3–7-flowered, cymes dichotomously branched; bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, 5–30 mm, soft, margins entire, distal ones ciliate on margins and adaxial vein. <b>Pedicels</b> erect, 5–45 mm, softly pubescent. <b>Flowers</b> 10–16 mm diam.; sepals 5, obscurely veined, narrowly triangular, (5–)7–10(–12) mm, margins narrow, membranous, apex acuminate, glabrous or with shortly ciliate margins; petals 5, equaling to slightly shorter than sepals; stamens 10; styles 3, ascending, ca. 2.5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> straw colored to pale brown, broadly ovoid, ca. 5 mm, shorter than sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 3 valves; carpophore absent. <b>Seeds</b> brown, broadly reniform, ca. 2 mm diam., coarsely sulcate-papillate. <b>2n</b> = 60.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Rocky woods
|elevation=300-1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Ind.;Ky.;Miss.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Stellaria corei</i> has been introduced in Connecticut. It is very similar to <i>S. pubera</i> but differs in its long-acuminate sepals.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Stellaria corei
|author=
|authority=Shinners
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsine tennesseensis;Stellaria pubera var. silvatica;Stellaria silvatica;Stellaria tennesseensis
|basionyms=Stellaria pubera subsp. silvatica
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Rocky woods
|elevation=300-1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Ind.;Ky.;Miss.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=1962
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_210.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Stellaria
|species=Stellaria corei
}}<!--

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