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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Stellaria alsine
|accepted_authority=Grimm
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur.
|place=3(app.): 313. 1767
|year=1767
}}
|common_names=Bog stitchwort or starwort;fausse alpine
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsine uliginosa
|authority=(Murray) Britton
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Stellaria uliginosa
|authority=Murray
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Stellaria;Stellaria alsine
|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 alsine]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 96, 98
|treatment_page=page 100
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, creeping, rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> decumbent and ascending, branched, smoothly 4-angled, 10–40 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> sessile; blade narrowly elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 0.5–2(–3) cm × 2–10(–13) mm, base cuneate, margins thin with reticulate venation, entire, apex acute, glabrous, slightly ciliate basally. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary with 1–5-flowered cymes in mid and distal axils of foliage leaves; bracts lanceolate, ca. 1 mm, scarious with green midrib. <b>Pedicels</b> 5–30 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> ca. 6 mm diam.; sepals 5, 3-veined, lanceolate-triangular, 2.5–3.5 mm, margins scarious, apex acute, glabrous; petals 5, 1.5–3 mm, shorter than (rarely equaling) sepals, blade apex 2-fid almost to base, with widely divergent lobes; stamens 10; styles 3, ca. 1 mm. <b>Capsules</b> green, ovoid, 2.5–3.5 mm, equaling sepals, apex broadly acute; carpophore absent. <b>Seeds</b> pale reddish brown, ± reniform, 0.3–0.4 mm diam., with small tubercles. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Streamsides, flushes, wet tracks, ditches
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;B.C.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;P.E.I.;Que.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;Vt.;Wash.;W.Va.;Europe;introduced in South America (Chile).
|discussion=<p><i>Stellaria alsine</i> is presumed to be native in eastern North America but has been introduced elsewhere in North America and Chile.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Stellaria alsine
|authority=Grimm
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsine uliginosa;Stellaria uliginosa
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Streamsides, flushes, wet tracks, ditches
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;B.C.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;P.E.I.;Que.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;Vt.;Wash.;W.Va.;Europe;introduced in South America (Chile).
|reference=None
|publication title=Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur.
|publication year=1767
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_204.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Stellaria
|species=Stellaria alsine
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