Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Stellaria flaccida
Common name
Forest starwort
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Where found
Margins of rainforest and moist shady places in eucalypt forest, shrubland near streams, and moist gullies. Widespread. Mainly coast and ranges.
Notes
Annual or perennial herb to 0.55 m high or sprawling or scrambling, hairless or almost so, often hairy at the nodes. Sparse to medium density white hairs on new growth. Leaves opposite each other, 0.5-2.3 mm long, 1-10 mm wide, limp, margins wavy, fringed at the base, tips pointed. Flowers white, with 5 deeply cleft petals longer than the sepals. Sepals 3.5–7.5 mm long. Flowers single or in open clusters. Flowering: Spring-Summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Stellaria~flaccida (accessed 21 January, 2021)
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