Stellaria holostea, SE: Buskstjärnblomma, DE: Große Sternmiere,
NL: Grote muur, UK: Greater Stitchwort, Addersmeat

Scientific name:		Stellaria holostea L.
Synonym name:		Alsine holostea (L.) Britton
Swedish name:		Buskstjärnblomma
German name:		Große Sternmiere
Nederlandse naam:		Grote muur
English name:		Greater Stitchwort, Addersmeat
Family:		Caryophyllaceae, Nejlikväxter

Date Picture Taken: July 18, 2008

Life form:		Perennial
Stems:		To 50cm long (20-30cm tall), decumbent, rooting at lower nodes, herbaceous, somewhat succulent, mostly glabrous but with a single longitudinal line of pubescence. Pubescence hirsute to tomentose.
Leaves:		Opposite, long, narrow
Flowers:		Five deeply-notched white petals and five shorter green sepals
Flowering Period:		May, June
Fruit:		Capsules to +6mm long, 4mm wide, glabrous, with +/-15 seeds. Seeds 1mm in diameter, tuberculate, rotund.
Habitat:		Forests and thickets

Date Picture Taken: July 18, 2008 Derivation of the botanical name: Stellaria, from the Latin stella for "star" because of the star-like shape of the flowers. holostea, holos for "whole", eus for "like". The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy. The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859 – 1934), an American botanist and taxonomist who founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York.