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|accepted_name=Stellaria crispa
|accepted_authority=Chamisso & Schlechtendal
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Linnaea
|place=1: 51. 1826
|year=1826
}}
|common_names=Crisp starwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsine crispa
|authority=(Chamisso & Schlechtendal) Holzinger
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Stellaria borealis var. crispa
|authority=(Chamisso & Schlechtendal) Fenzl ex Torrey & A. Gray
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Stellaria;Stellaria crispa
|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 crispa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 98
|treatment_page=page 104
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, forming small to large mats, from slender rhizomes. <b>Stems</b> trailing to ascending, branched, 4-angled, 10–60 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> subsessile; blade broadly elliptic to ovate, 0.4–2.6 cm × 2–15 mm, base round to cuneate, margins entire, apex acuminate, glabrous or with a few scattered cilia. <b>Inflorescences</b> with flowers solitary in leaf axils; bracts absent. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending, straight, mostly 5–30 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> 4–5 mm; sepals 5, prominently 3-veined, lanceolate, 2–4 mm, margins broadly scarious, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous; petals usually absent, rarely 1–5 and much shorter than sepals; stamens 10 or fewer; styles 3, spreading to ascending, curved but not curled, ca. 1 mm. <b>Capsules</b> straw colored or brownish, ovoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 3.5–6 mm, equaling or slightly exceeding sepals, apex broadly acute, opening by 6 valves; carpophore absent. <b>Seeds</b> brown, broadly elliptic, 0.7–1 mm (longest axis), distinctly rugose. <b>2n</b> = 26, 52.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Wet soil in woods, shaded streambanks and shores
|elevation=0-2300 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
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name=Stellaria crispa
|author=
|authority=Chamisso & Schlechtendal
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsine crispa;Stellaria borealis var. crispa
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Wet soil in woods, shaded streambanks and shores
|elevation=0-2300 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Linnaea
|publication year=1826
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Stellaria
|species=Stellaria crispa
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