Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Lesser Stitchwort, Stellaria graminea, Tursarraing bheag
Photographs: Co. Cork

Lesser Stitchwort
Stellaria graminea
Tursarraing bheag
Family: Caryophyllaceae

Flowering time: May-August. Perennial. Native.

Numerous small white flowers with narrow, deeply divided petals, the petals as long or longer than sepals. Drooping stalks when fruiting. Stalkless linear-lanceolate leaves in pairs up the smooth-edged, weak, brittle stems. Straggling growth to 70cm tall.

Abundant throughout Ireland on dry roadsides and in grassland.

Similar: Bog Stitchwort, S. uliginosa on wet, often acidic ground and Greater Stitchwort, S. holostea with larger flowers.

Lesser Stitchwort, Stellaria graminea, Tursarraing bheag

Lesser Stitchwort, Stellaria graminea, Tursarraing bheag
Lesser Stitchwort, Stellaria graminea, Tursarraing bheag

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