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§1 Plant
Stellaria longipes Goldie
vernacular longstalk starwort — species · Caryophyllaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Stellaria
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 228 counties across 18 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.8–8.5
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 0.9 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,100,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 228 counties across 18 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 19 N ▾
- Anchorage 02020
- Bethel 02050
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Denali 02068
- Dillingham 02070
- Fairbanks North Star 02090
- Haines 02100
- Juneau 02110
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Kodiak Island 02150
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Matanuska-Susitna 02170
- Nome 02180
- North Slope 02185
- Northwest Arctic 02188
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yakutat 02282
- Yukon-Koyukuk 02290
Arizona view state ↗ 3 N ▾
California view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Alpine 06003
- Butte 06007
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Inyo 06027
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Madera 06039
- Mariposa 06043
- Modoc 06049
- Mono 06051
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- San Bernardino 06071
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Stanislaus 06099
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
Colorado view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Adams 16003
- Benewah 16009
- Blaine 16013
- Boise 16015
- Butte 16023
- Caribou 16029
- Cassia 16031
- Clark 16033
- Custer 16037
- Elmore 16039
- Fremont 16043
- Gooding 16047
- Idaho 16049
- Kootenai 16055
- Latah 16057
- Lemhi 16059
- Lincoln 16063
- Madison 16065
- Minidoka 16067
- Nez Perce 16069
- Owyhee 16073
- Shoshone 16079
- Teton 16081
- Twin Falls 16083
- Valley 16085
Michigan view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 12 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 4 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 18 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Piute 49031
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
- Weber 49057
Washington view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Chelan 53007
- Clallam 53009
- Clark 53011
- Columbia 53013
- Ferry 53019
- Grays Harbor 53027
- Island 53029
- King 53033
- Kittitas 53037
- Klickitat 53039
- Lincoln 53043
- Okanogan 53047
- Pacific 53049
- Pend Oreille 53051
- San Juan 53055
- Skamania 53059
- Spokane 53063
- Stevens 53065
- Thurston 53067
- Whatcom 53073
- Whitman 53075
- Yakima 53077
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/STLO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5384620 ↗Record version
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