Common Name:
NORTHERN STITCHWORT
Synonym:
Stellaria calycantha
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Coefficient of Conservatism:
10
Coefficient of Wetness:
-3
Wetness Index:
FACW
Physiognomy:
Nt P-Forb
S. calycantha of Michigan Flora.
Most often in forests of spruce, fir, and birch, of tamarack, of cedar, or even of northern hemlock-hardwoods, especially in openings or hollows, along trails, etc.; also on gravelly shores and borders of ponds and marshes.
This is our only species in the genus characterized by ciliate leaf margins without any other pubescence; it is also our only one that regularly lacks petals (a very few of the specimens from Isle Royale have petals barely equaling the sepals).