Stellaria longifolia

Long-leaved starwort

Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.2

Long-leaved starwort is a California native perennial found in northern Sierra Nevada and High Cascade Range bioregions in moist areas at elevations around 900 meters. Flowering from late spring to summer, this plant produces white flowers with delicate petals about 1 to 1.2 times the length of its narrow sepals. Growing with sprawling to ascending stems 15 to 40 centimeters tall that are generally glabrous, it has a distinctive white rhizome with slightly rough internodes. Its leaves are evenly spaced, linear to lance-linear, 15 to 35 millimeters long with papillate margins that are flat and sometimes ciliate near the base. The seeds are small, red-brown, and minutely roughened, measuring approximately 0.8 to 0.9 millimeters long.

Habitat: Moist areas

Bloom period: Late spring-summer

Elevation: +- 900 m.

Bioregions: CaRH, n SNH

California counties: Shasta, Butte, Plumas, Tehama

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.