Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Bog Stitchwort, Stellaria alsine, Tursarraing mhóna
Photographs: Co. Cork

Bog Stitchwort
Stellaria uliginosa
Tursarraing mhóna
Family: Caryophyllaceae

Flowering time: June-September. Perennial. Native.

The small white flowers have sepals longer than the deeply divided petals. The pointed oval-lanceolate leaves are grey-green and un-stalked but the non-flowering shoots have stalked leaves. A hairless plant with weak, straggling, square stems, to 25cm.

Often in acidic soils on damp ground in wet woods and by pond edges

Similar: Lesser Stitchwort, Stellaria graminea has longer, narrower leaves and petals equal in length to sepals.

Bog Stitchwort, Stellaria alsine, Tursarraing mhóna

Bog Stitchwort, Stellaria alsine, Tursarraing mhóna
Bog Stitchwort, Stellaria alsine, Tursarraing mhóna

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