Flora
of East-Central Indiana
| Great Chickweed |
| Scientific Name | Stellaria pubera Michx. |
| Family Name | Caryophyllaceae (Pink Family) |
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Characteristics |
| Habitat: | woods, dry to moist low woods, rocky slopes |
| Plant Height: | 20 cm; sprawling to erect, multiple stems from thick roots; pubescent |
| Flower Color: | white |
| Flower: | complete; perfect; 5 petals, notched and appearing as ten; 5 sepals; stamens 10; ovary superior; styles 3; 1.5 cm wide |
| Inflorescence: | solitary flower borne between opposite stems; peduncles elongating in fruit; |
| Fruit: | 4-valved, many-seeded capsule |
| Leaves: | entire; simple; opposite; sessile to very short-petiolate; lanceolate to oblong or narrowly ovate; mostly glabrous but typically with pubescent margins on lower half of blade |
| Bloom Time: | late April-May |
| Origins: | native |
| Other: | stems in two forms, flowering and non-flowering |
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| general habit | close up of flowers |
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