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Stellaria laeta

  • Family name: Caryophyllaceae
  • Common name: chickweed or starwort
  • Growth form: Forb
  • Names used on the Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas maps:
    • Arctic Alaska Tundra Vegetation Map: Stellaria laeta
    • Toolik Permanent Plots: Stellaria laeta
    • Happy Valley Permanent Plots: Stellaria laeta

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  1. Stellaria laeta    , chickweed or starwort
  2. Blue-green plant characteristic in appearance to S. monantha
    Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada, 62?48'N, 92?06'W.
    Image author: Aiken and Brysting ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Stellaria laeta    , chickweed or starwort
  2. flowers solitary in the axils of normal green leaves or in few-flowered inflorescences with leaf-like bracts.
    Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada, 62?48'N, 92?06'W.
    Image author: Aiken and Brysting ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Stellaria laeta    , chickweed or starwort
  2. Isolated plants in dry calcareous gravel
    near Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, 58?44.15'N, 93?49.09'W
    Image author: Aiken and Brysting ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Stellaria laeta    , chickweed or starwort
  2. Leaves lanceolate and strongly keeled
    near Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, 58?44.15'N, 93?49.09'W
    Image author: Aiken and Brysting ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Stellaria laeta    , chickweed or starwort
  2. The 5 petals are deeply cleft, longer than the sepals; 3 styles and 10 stamens (here at post-anthesis).
    near Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, 58?44.15'N, 93?49.09'W
    Image author: Aiken and Brysting ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image