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|accepted_name=Stellaria fontinalis
|accepted_authority=(Short & R. Peter) B. L. Robinson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=29: 286. 1894
|year=1894
}}
|common_names=Kentucky starwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Sagina fontinalis
|authority=Short & R. Peter
|rank=species
|publication_title=Transylvania J. Med. Assoc. Sci.
|publication_place=7: 600. 1836
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsine fontinalis
|authority=(Short & R. Peter) Britton
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria fontinalis
|authority=(Short & R. Peter) Shinners
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Spergula fontinalis
|authority=(Short & R. Peter) Dietrich
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Stellaria;Stellaria fontinalis
|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 fontinalis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 96, 97, 98
|treatment_page=page 105
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; taproot slender. <b>Stems</b> straggling to ascending, branched, square, 10–25 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> sessile; blade with obscure midrib, narrowly oblanceolate to linear-spatulate, 1–3 cm × 0.8–4 mm, somewhat fleshy, base cuneate, margins entire, apex ± acute, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> with flowers solitary in distal leaf axils; bracts absent. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending or erect, 10–40 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> 2.5–4 mm diam.; sepals 4(–5), 3-veined, ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–3 mm, margins narrow, scarious, apex ± acute, glabrous; petals absent; stamens 4(–5), shorter than sepals; styles 3 or 4, ascending, ca. 0.5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> green or straw colored, ovoid, ca. 3 mm, ± equaling sepals, apex obtuse, opening to base into 3 or 4 valves; carpophore absent. <b>Seeds</b> dark red-brown, orbiculate-reniform, 0.6 × 0.8 mm, shiny, tuberculate; tubercles prominent, stalked and knoblike.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Seasonally wet, rocky openings in wooded glades, on wet cliffs
|elevation=400-500 m
|distribution=Ky.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p><i>Stellaria fontinalis</i> is a very rare and poorly known species of uncertain affinity. Its characters are closer to <i>Sagina</i> and <i>Minuartia</i> than <i>Stellaria</i>, in particular the absence of petals, the 4(–5)-merous flowers, and the distinctive sculpturing of the seeds.</p>
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name=Stellaria fontinalis
|authority=(Short & R. Peter) B. L. Robinson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsine fontinalis;Arenaria fontinalis;Spergula fontinalis
|basionyms=Sagina fontinalis
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Seasonally wet, rocky openings in wooded glades, on wet cliffs
|elevation=400-500 m
|distribution=Ky.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1894
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Stellaria
|species=Stellaria fontinalis
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