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Northern Starwort
Stellaria calycantha
  
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About Northern Starwort (Stellaria calycantha) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant Stellaria calycantha is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name northern starwort. It is native to western North America from Alaska and northwestern Canada to California and New Mexico, as well as eastern Russia. It occurs in subalpine and alpine climates, in many types of moist, shady habitat. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing a prostrate to erect stem up to 25 centimeters long, taking a clumpy form. The thin oval leaves have smooth edges and pointed tips, and measure up to 2. 5 centimeters in length. The inflorescence bears one or more flowers, each on a long pedicel. Each flower has five pointed green sepals, and some flowers have up to five deeply lobed white petals.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Perennial herb

Flower Color
Flower Color
White, Green

Wildlife Supported
 


 
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Elegant Sheepmoth Hemileuca eglanterinaHemileuca eglanterina
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Red Twin-Spot Xanthorhoe ferrugataXanthorhoe ferrugata
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Spotted Cut-Worm Xestia c-nigrumXestia c-nigrum
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Many-spotted Tiger Moth Hypercompe permaculataHypercompe permaculata
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Citrus Cutworm Egira curialisEgira curialis

Landscaping Information
Natural Setting
Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 18.4" - 120.2", Summer Precipitation: 0.60" - 4.08", Coldest Month: 18.8" - 49.5", Hottest Month: 40.8" - 74.4", Humidity: 1.02" - 21.87", Elevation: 105" - 12692"


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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