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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Stellaria pubera
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=1: 273. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|common_names=Star chickweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsine pubera
|authority=(Michaux) Britton
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsine pubera var. tennesseensis
|authority=C. Mohr
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Stellaria;Stellaria pubera
|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 pubera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 97, 99, 103
|treatment_page=page 112
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, with stems loosely tufted, rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched, 4-sided, 10–40 cm, with alternating lines of spreading, soft, flexuous, mainly eglandular hairs. <b>Leaves</b> usually sessile (distal), often short-petiolate (proximal); blade elliptic, obovate, or lanceolate, widest at or beyond middle, 1–10 cm × 5–35 mm, base cuneate, margins entire, apex acute, glabrous to sparsely pubescent adaxially, ciliate on margins and abaxial midrib. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, 3–70-flowered cymes; bracts elliptic to lanceolate, 7–65 mm, herbaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> erect in flower, often deflexed at base in fruit, 5–40 mm, softly pubescent. <b>Flowers</b> (8–)10–12 mm diam.; sepals 5, with midrib, ovate, 3.5–6 mm, margins narrow, scarious, apex obtuse to acute, softly and often sparsely pubescent; petals 5, 4–8 mm, longer than sepals; stamens 10; styles 3, ascending, 2.5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> green to straw colored, broadly ovoid, 3.5–5.5 mm, ca. equaling sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 6 valves; carpophore absent. <b>Seeds</b> brown, obliquely reniform, 1.5–2 mm diam., coarsely sulcate-papillate. <b>2n</b> = 30.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Rich deciduous woods, alluvial bottomlands
|elevation=100-1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Nebr.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Stellaria pubera</i> has been introduced in Nebraska and possibly in Illinois. It is very similar to <i>S. corei</i> but is distinguished by its shorter, more ovate sepals.</p>
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name=Stellaria pubera
|author=
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsine pubera;Alsine pubera var. tennesseensis
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Rich deciduous woods, alluvial bottomlands
|elevation=100-1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Nebr.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1803
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_235.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Stellaria
|species=Stellaria pubera
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