Stellaria L.
Distribution
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amur, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Assam, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burundi, Buryatiya, California, Cameroon, Canary Is., Central European Rus, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Comoros, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Finland, Florida, France, Føroyar, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Kuwait, Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Louisiana, Macquarie Is., Madagascar, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oman, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Qinghai, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Arkansas, Azores, Botswana, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Crozet Is., Cuba, Free State, Galápagos, Guinea, Hawaii, Jamaica, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kerguelen, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Marion-Prince Edward, Mauritius, Namibia, New Caledonia, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Oklahoma, South Georgia, St.Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay, Windward Is., Zambia
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Alsine Tourn. ex L. in Sp. Pl.: 272 (1753)
- Alsinula Dostál in Folia Mus. Rerum Nat. Bohemiae Occid., Bot. 21: 4 (1984), not validly publ.
- Ballarion Raf. in Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 1: 266 (1818)
- Bigelowia Raf. in Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 1: 442 (1817)
- Fimbripetalum (Turcz.) Ikonn. in Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 14: 78 (1977)
- Hylebia Fourr. in Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n.s., 16: 347 (1868)
- Larbrea A.St.-Hil. in Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 2: 287 (1815)
- Leucostemma Benth. ex G.Don in Gen. Hist. 1: 449 (1831)
- Malachium Fr. ex Rchb. in Fl. Germ. Excurs. 2: 795 (1832), nom. superfl.
- Micropetalon Pers. in Syn. Pl. 1: 509 (1805)
- Myosanthus Desv. in J. Bot. Agric. 3: 227 (1816), nom. superfl.
- Myosoton Moench in Methodus: 225 (1794)
- Plettkea Mattf. in Schriften Vereins Naturk. Unterweser, reimpr., n.s., 7: 13 (1934)
- Spergulastrum Michx. in Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 275 (1803)
- Stellularia Hill in Gen. Nat. Hist. 2(Hist. Pl.): 436 (1773)
- Tytthostemma Nevski in Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 4: 305 (1937)
Accepted Species
- Stellaria abaensis H.F.Xu & Z.H.Ma
- Stellaria × adulterina Focke
- Stellaria alaschanica Y.Z.Zhao
- Stellaria alaskana Hultén
- Stellaria × alpestris (Hartm.) Hartm.
- Stellaria alsine Grimm
- Stellaria alsinoides Boiss. & Buhse
- Stellaria altimontana N.S.Pavlova
- Stellaria × ambigua Bég.
- Stellaria amblyosepala Schrenk
- Stellaria americana (Porter ex B.L.Rob.) Standl.
- Stellaria amplexicaulis (Hand.-Mazz.) Huan C.Wang & Feng Yang
- Stellaria anagalloides Rupr.
- Stellaria angarae Popov
- Stellaria angustifolia Hook.
- Stellaria antillana Urb.
- Stellaria antoniana Volponi
- Stellaria apetala Ucria
- Stellaria aphanantha Griseb.
- Stellaria aphananthoidea Muschl.
- Stellaria aquatica (L.) Scop.
- Stellaria arenarioides Shi L.Chen, Rabeler & Turland
- Stellaria arvalis Fenzl ex F.Phil.
- Stellaria australis Zoll. & Moritzi
- Stellaria bayanensis L.Q.Zhao & Y.Z.Zhao
- Stellaria bistyla Y.Z.Zhao
- Stellaria blatteri Mattf.
- Stellaria borealis Bigelow
- Stellaria brachypetala Bunge
- Stellaria bungeana Fenzl
- Stellaria calycantha (Ledeb.) Bong.
- Stellaria celsa Ravenna
- Stellaria chilensis Pedersen
- Stellaria chinensis Regel
- Stellaria cilicica Boiss. & Balansa
- Stellaria circinata Ravenna
- Stellaria concinna Ravenna
- Stellaria congestiflora H.Hara
- Stellaria corei Shinners
- Stellaria crassifolia Ehrh.
- Stellaria crispa Cham. & Schltdl.
- Stellaria cryptantha (Mattf.) M.T.Sharples & E.A.Tripp
- Stellaria cryptopetala Griseb.
- Stellaria cuonaensis L.H.Zhou
- Stellaria cupaniana (Jord. & Fourr.) Bég.
- Stellaria cuspidata Willd. ex D.F.K.Schltdl.
- Stellaria darvasievii Kamelin
- Stellaria davurica D.F.K.Schltdl.
- Stellaria debilis d'Urv.
- Stellaria decipiens Hook.f.
- Stellaria decumbens Edgew.
- Stellaria delavayi Franch.
- Stellaria depauperata Edgew.
- Stellaria depressa Em.Schmid
- Stellaria dianthifolia F.N.Williams
- Stellaria dichotoma L.
- Stellaria dicranoides (Cham. & Schltdl.) Fenzl
- Stellaria discolor Turcz.
- Stellaria edwardsii R.Br.
- Stellaria emirnensis Danguy
- Stellaria erlangeriana Engl.
- Stellaria eschscholtziana Fenzl
- Stellaria fennica (Murb.) Perfil.
- Stellaria fenzlii Regel
- Stellaria filicaulis Makino
- Stellaria filiformis (Benth.) Mattf.
- Stellaria fischeriana Ser.
- Stellaria flaccida Hook.
- Stellaria × glauciformis Bouvet
- Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
- Stellaria graminea L.
- Stellaria gyangtsensis F.N.Williams
- Stellaria gyirongensis L.H.Zhou
- Stellaria hebecalyx Fenzl
- Stellaria henryi F.N.Williams
- Stellaria hintoniorum B.L.Turner
- Stellaria howardii Maguire
- Stellaria humifusa Rottb.
- Stellaria × hybrida Rouy & Foucaud
- Stellaria imbricata Bunge
- Stellaria infracta Maxim.
- Stellaria inundata Vorosch.
- Stellaria irazuensis Donn.Sm.
- Stellaria irrigua Bunge
- Stellaria jacutica Schischk.
- Stellaria koelzii Rech.f.
- Stellaria kolymensis A.P.Khokhr.
- Stellaria krylovii N.V.Vlassova & Artemov
- Stellaria laeta Richardson
- Stellaria lanata Hook.f.
- Stellaria × lancifolia Kom.
- Stellaria lanipes C.Y.Wu & H.Chuang
- Stellaria laxmannii Fisch. ex Ser.
- Stellaria leptoclada (Benth.) C.H.Mill. & J.G.West
- Stellaria littoralis Torr.
- Stellaria longifolia Muhl. ex Willd.
- Stellaria longipes Goldie
- Stellaria mainlingensis L.H.Zhou
- Stellaria mannii Hook.f.
- Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
- Stellaria merzbacheri Kozhevn.
- Stellaria miahuatlana B.L.Turner
- Stellaria minuta Kirk
- Stellaria minutifolia Maguire
- Stellaria montioides (Edgew. & Hook.f.) Ghaz.
- Stellaria multiflora Hook.
- Stellaria multipartita Bo Xu & Meng Li
- Stellaria neglecta (Lej.) Weihe
- Stellaria nemorum L.
- Stellaria nepalensis Majumdar & Vartak
- Stellaria nipponica Ohwi
- Stellaria nitens Nutt.
- Stellaria nubigena Standl.
- Stellaria obtusa Engelm.
- Stellaria omeiensis C.Y.Wu & Tsui ex P.Ke
- Stellaria ovata Willd. ex D.F.K.Schltdl.
- Stellaria ovatifolia (M.Mizush.) M.Mizush.
- Stellaria oxycoccoides Kom.
- Stellaria palustris Ehrh. ex Hoffm.
- Stellaria papillata C.H.Mill. & J.G.West
- Stellaria parviflora Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
- Stellaria parviumbellata Y.Z.Zhao
- Stellaria patens D.Don
- Stellaria pauciflora Zoll. & Moritzi
- Stellaria pedersenii Volponi
- Stellaria peduncularis Bunge
- Stellaria pentastyla W.Qiao Wang, H.F.Xu & Z.H.Ma
- Stellaria persica Boiss.
- Stellaria petiolaris Hand.-Mazz.
- Stellaria pilosoides Shi L.Chen, Rabeler & Turland
- Stellaria pinvalliaca Chandra Sek. & S.K.Srivast.
- Stellaria polyantha (Edgew. & Hook.f.) M.T.Sharples & E.A.Tripp
- Stellaria porsildii C.C.Chinnappa
- Stellaria procumbens Huan C.Wang & Feng Yang
- Stellaria pterosperma Ohwi
- Stellaria pubera Michx.
- Stellaria pulvinata Grubov
- Stellaria pungens Brongn.
- Stellaria pusilla Em.Schmid
- Stellaria radians L.
- Stellaria recurvata Willd. ex D.F.K.Schltdl.
- Stellaria reticulivena Hayata
- Stellaria rigida Bunge
- Stellaria roughii Hook.f.
- Stellaria ruderalis M.Lepší, P.Lepší, Z.Kaplan & P.Koutecký
- Stellaria ruscifolia D.F.K.Schltdl.
- Stellaria salicifolia Tsui & P.Ke
- Stellaria sanjuanensis (Greene ex Rydb.) M.T.Sharples & E.A.Tripp
- Stellaria sarcophylla Rech.f.
- Stellaria scaturiginella Rech.f.
- Stellaria schischkinii Peschkova
- Stellaria semivestita Edgew.
- Stellaria sennii Chiov.
- Stellaria serpens Ravenna
- Stellaria sessiliflora Y.Yabe
- Stellaria sibirica (Regel & Tiling) Schischk.
- Stellaria sikaramensis Rech.f.
- Stellaria sikkimensis Hook.f.
- Stellaria sitchana Steud.
- Stellaria soongorica Roshev.
- Stellaria souliei F.N.Williams
- Stellaria strongylosepala Hand.-Mazz.
- Stellaria tetrasticha (Mattf.) M.T.Sharples & E.A.Tripp
- Stellaria tibetica Kurz
- Stellaria turkestanica Schischk.
- Stellaria uchiyamana Makino
- Stellaria uda F.N.Williams
- Stellaria venezuelana Steyerm.
- Stellaria vestita Kurz
- Stellaria viridifolia (A.P.Khokhr.) A.P.Khokhr.
- Stellaria wallichiana Haines
- Stellaria weddellii Pedersen
- Stellaria williamsiana Kozhevn.
- Stellaria winkleri (Briq.) Schischk.
- Stellaria xanthospora Chodat & Wilczek
- Stellaria yungasensis (Rusby) Rusby ex Volponi
- Stellaria yunnanensis Franch.
- Stellaria zangnanensis L.H.Zhou
- Stellaria zhuxiensis Q.L.Gan & X.W.Li
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 1: 141.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Gen. Pl. ed 5: 193 (1754).
- Sp. Pl. 1: 421 (1753)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5, 193 (1754)
- Sp. Pl. 421 (1753)
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Flora Zambesiaca
- Flora Zambesiaca
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0