Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Stellaria pubera
FAMILY
Caryophyllaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Giant Chickweed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stellaria pubera
FAMILY
Caryophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 071-07-004:
Stellaria pubera
FAMILY
Caryophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Alsine pubera
COMMON NAME:
Giant Chickweed, Star Chickweed, Great Chickweed, Common Starwort
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_alpu8_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm090321_095
March Greenville County SC
Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve
Stem leaves are mostly lanceolate, to 3.5" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm200322_3339
March Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
Sepals are acute to obtuse and shorter than the petals, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm200322_3365
March Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_stellaria_pubera
March
Apparently 10 petals, but actually 5 petals deeply split, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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JK Marlow jkm0404h_17
April Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
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JK Marlow jkm130422_668
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm160422_120
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Fruit is an ovoid capsule containing many small seeds, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
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JK Marlow jkm160423_474
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Short, small-leaved flowering shoots replaced by taller shoots w larger lvs, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
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JK Marlow jkm180427_1552
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm200403_3475
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200422_4040
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm210401_9084
April Polk County NC
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Keith Bradley kab_stellaria_pubera_0473
April NC
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Keith Bradley kab_stellaria_pubera_1349
April Polk County SC
Pearson's Falls
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Keith Bradley kab_stellaria_pubera_1369
April Polk County SC
Pearson's Falls
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JK Marlow jkm160727_445
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Sterile and fertile shoots dimorphic, the leaves of sterile shoots much larger, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm160727_449
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm210824_2988
August Greenville County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Stellaria pubera
FAMILY
Caryophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stellaria pubera
FAMILY
Caryophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 071-07-004:
Stellaria pubera
FAMILY
Caryophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Alsine pubera
1464
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Look for it in bottomland forests, moist slopes, coves, hammocks, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Usually bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5 petals
5-10 stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p176
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p036
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p190
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p274
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p022
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p134
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p008
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest p328
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p057
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p067
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p059
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p081
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p447
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p040