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|accepted_name=Stellaria nitens
|accepted_authority=Nuttall in J. Torrey and A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Torrey and A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer.
|place=1: 185. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|common_names=Shining starwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Stellaria praecox
|authority=A. Nelson
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Stellaria;Stellaria nitens
|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 nitens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 98
|treatment_page=page 110
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, from threadlike taproots. <b>Stems</b> erect, sparingly branched below inflorescence, 4-sided, 3–25 cm, glabrous or sparsely hairy. <b>Leaves</b> sessile, crowded at base, shiny; blade oblanceolate to obovate and spatulate (proximal) or linear-lanceolate (distal), 0.5–1.5 cm × 0.5–2 mm, base round, apex acuminate, glabrous, often ciliate on margins. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, 3–21-flowered (rarely more) cymes; bracts linear-lanceolate, 1–12 mm, scarious distally, herbaceous proximally, often ciliate on margins. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending to erect, ± straight in fruit, 2–25 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> 2–3 mm diam.; sepals 5, with 3 prominent, ridged veins, very narrowly lanceolate, to acicular, 2.8–4.2 mm, margins wide, scarious, apex acuminate, glabrous; petals 5 or absent, 1–3 mm, shorter than sepals, blade apex 2-lobed; stamens 3–5; styles 3, spreading, becoming curled, ca. 0.3 mm. <b>Capsules</b> green or straw colored, narrowly ovoid, 2–3 mm, shorter than sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 3 valves, splitting into 6; carpophore absent. <b>Seeds</b> brown, round, 0.5–0.7 mm diam., minutely tuberculate. <b>2n</b> = 20, 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Dry, open habitats: sand dunes, stream banks, rocky outcrops, open woodlands, beneath boulders, disturbed areas
|elevation=0-2000 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.
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name=Stellaria nitens
|author=
|authority=Nuttall in J. Torrey and A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Stellaria praecox
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Dry, open habitats: sand dunes, stream banks, rocky outcrops, open woodlands, beneath boulders, disturbed areas
|elevation=0-2000 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. Torrey and A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1838
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Stellaria
|species=Stellaria nitens
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