Asterisk marsh ( Latin: Stellária palústris ) is a perennial herbaceous plant, a species of the genus Asterisk ( Stellaria ) of the family Carnation ( Caryophyllaceae ).
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| Order : | Caryophyllanae Takht. , 1967 |
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Stellaria palustris Ehrh. ex hoffm. , 1791 |
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A plant widespread in Eurasia, confined to wetlands and wetlands. It differs in the characteristic bluish coloring of the vegetative parts, as well as in the red anthers of the flower.
Botanical illustration of Jacob Sturm from the book
Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen , 1796
Perennial herb with a thin branched rhizome . Stems are rising, 10-60 cm tall, tetrahedral in cross section, sometimes with tubercles in the lower part, bluish-green.
The leaves are opposite, linear-lanceolate in shape, whole, sometimes with few spines along the edge, 1.5–2 cm long, bluish or green. Axillary shoots are usually absent.
Flowers are collected in loose semi -umbrellas of 2-9, more rarely single, on long bare pedicels . Sepals are lanceolate, 5-7 mm long, bell-shaped calyx . White petals , including five, divided almost from the base into two linear lobes, as a rule, are twice as long as the cup or slightly shorter. Stamens with red anthers. Three columns .
Fruits - oblong capsules almost equal in calyx length. Seeds are dark brown, with scars.
A European-Caucasian-Central Asian plant found in moist and swampy meadows, in ditches, along the marshy shores of water bodies, in lowland marshes.
