Stellaria obtusa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- Genus
- Stellaria
- Species
- Stellaria obtusa
- Scientific Name
- Stellaria obtusa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Stellaria obtusa
Engellaria obtusa (synonym Stellaria obtusa) is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names Rocky Mountain chickweed, blunt-sepaled starwort, and obtuse starwort. It is the sole species in genus Engellaria. It is native to western North America, from British Columbia and Alberta to California to Colorado, where it grows in moist areas in forests and on mountain slopes.
It is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing a prostrate, creeping, branching stem up to about 20 centimeters long, sometimes forming mats. The oval leaves are up to about a centimeter long and are borne in opposite pairs on the stem. Solitary flowers occur in the leaf axils, each borne on a short pedicel. The small flower has no petals, just four to five blunt-tipped green sepals each a few millimeters long.
...Stellaria obtusa in languages:
- English
- obtuse starwort
- French
- stellaire obtuse
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
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- Stellaria anagalloides
- Stellaria angustifolia
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- Stellaria aquatica
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- Stellaria borealis
- Stellaria brachypetala
- Stellaria bungeana
- Stellaria calycantha
- Stellaria chilensis
- Stellaria chinensis
- Stellaria ciliatosepala
- Stellaria corei
- Stellaria crassifolia
- Stellaria crassipes
- Stellaria crispa
- Stellaria cupaniana
- Stellaria cuspidata
- Stellaria dahurica
- Stellaria debilis
- Stellaria decipiens
- Stellaria decumbens
- Stellaria depressa
- Stellaria dichotoma
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- Stellaria discolor
- Stellaria edwardsii
- Stellaria eschscholtziana
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- Stellaria gracilenta
- Stellaria graminea
- Stellaria gypsophiloides
- Stellaria hebecalyx
- Stellaria hintoniorum
- Stellaria humifusa
- Stellaria imbricata
- Stellaria irazuensis
- Stellaria irrigua
- Stellaria leptoclada
- Stellaria littoralis
- Stellaria longifolia
- Stellaria longipes
- Stellaria mannii
- Stellaria martjanovii
- Stellaria media
- Stellaria miahuatlana
- Stellaria minuta
- Stellaria monosperma
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- Stellaria multiflora
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- Stellaria parva
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- Stellaria persica
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