Calflora: Stellaria obtusa

Stellaria obtusa Engelm.

Rocky Mountain chickweed, obtuse starwort

Stellaria obtusa, a dicot, is a perennial herb (rhizomatous) that is native to California and is also found elsewhere in North America and beyond.

It is included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list 4.3 (limited distribution). 7th Edition / 8th Edition

Community:	Red Fir Forest
Elevation:	between 6000 and 7000 feet
Family:	CARYOPHYLLACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Stellaria found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
(according to)

PLANTS:	Alsine obtusa
PLANTS:	Alsine viridula
PLANTS:	Alsine washingtoniana
PLANTS:	Stellaria viridula
PLANTS:	Stellaria washingtoniana

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

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	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Butte: 24 / 21 CCH Glenn: 9 / 8 CCH Humboldt: 1 / 1 CCH Lassen: 1 / 0 CCH Mendocino: 1 / 0 CCH Mono: 2 / 0 CCH Modoc: 1 / 1 CCH Nevada: 9 / 7 CCH Placer: 3 / 2 CCH Plumas: 14 / 11 CCH Shasta: 1 / 0 CCH Sierra: 4 / 4 CCH Siskiyou: 1 / 1 CCH Tehama: 8 / 7 CCH Tuolumne: 2 / 2 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Stellaria obtusa from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (STOB)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
CNPS Inventory of rare and endangered plants
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database