Stellaria longipes subsp. longipes
Goldie's starwort, Goldie's Starwort
Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Goldie's starwort is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern California Coast Ranges, high Cascade Ranges, Sierra Nevada, central Coast Ranges, San Bernardino Mountains, Warner Mountains, northern eastern Sierra Nevada, and White and Inyo Mountains in streambanks, moist meadows, and seeps at elevations of 1,250 to 3,500 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces delicate white flowers approximately 1 to 1.2 times the length of its lanceolate sepals. Growing with ascending to erect stems 5 to 35 centimeters tall, it has distinctive white rhizomes and glabrous or slightly hairy internodes. Its linear to lance-linear leaves are 10 to 40 millimeters long, with flat margins that are sometimes ciliate near the base and appear shiny. The small red-brown seeds are less than one millimeter long and minutely roughened.
Habitat: Streambanks, moist to boggy meadows, seeps
Bloom period: May-Aug
Elevation: (0)1250-3500 m
Bioregions: KR, NCoRI, CaRH, SN, CCo (San Luis Obispo Co.), SnBr, Wrn, n SNE, W&I
California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo, Tulare, Mono, El Dorado, Butte, Madera, Mariposa, Placer, Alpine, San Luis Obispo, Amador, Calaveras, Lassen, Fresno, Kern, Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tuolumne, Modoc
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