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Stellaria pallida (Dumort.) Crép.
Family Caryophyllaceae
Common name: Lesser Chickweed

Stellaria pallida (Dumort.) Crép. APNI*

Description: Annual prostrate herb; glabrous except for line of hairs between nodes.

Leaves ovate, (6-)10–20 mm long, 2–4(-8.5) mm wide, margins ± sparsely ciliate; usually petiolate.

Flowers in a terminal cyme; pedicels c. 2–3 mm long, not usually recurved after flowering. Sepals 2.5–3.5 mm long, with non-glandular multicellular hairs; margins scarious. Petals absent. Stamens 1–3, anthers grey-violet.

Capsule ovoid, shortly exceeding calyx, purple on parts.


Flowering: spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Weed of cultivation and other disturbed sites. Native of Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *NT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *NWP, *SWP, *SFWP
Other Australian states: *Vic. *Tas. *S.A. *W.A.
AVH map***

Resembling S. media but paler yellow-green and smaller.

Text by A. Doust (1990); edited KL Wilson (May, Oct 2010, Nov 2012)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990); CH Miller and JG West (2012)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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