An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . 4. Alsine media L. Common Tongue-grass. Fig. 1752. Alsine media L. Sp. PI. 272. 1753. Stellaria media Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 3: 615. 1789. Annual, weak, tufted, much branched, decum-bent or ascending, 4-l6 long, glabrous excepta line of hairs along the stem and branches, thepubescent sepals and the sometimes ciliate peti-oles. Leaves ovate or o
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . 4. Alsine media L. Common Tongue-grass. Fig. 1752. Alsine media L. Sp. PI. 272. 1753. Stellaria media Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 3: 615. 1789. Annual, weak, tufted, much branched, decum-bent or ascending, 4-l6 long, glabrous excepta line of hairs along the stem and branches, thepubescent sepals and the sometimes ciliate peti-oles. Leaves ovate or oval, 2-!* long, acute orrarely obtuse, the low-er petioled and oftencordate, the upper sessile; flowers 2-4 broad,in terminal leafy cymes or also solitary in theaxils; pedicels slender; sepals oblong, mostlyacute, longer than the 2-parted petals; stamens2-10; capsule ovoid, longer than the calyx; seedsrough, sometimes crested. In waste places, meadows and woods, nearlythroughout North America. Naturalized from Eu-rope, though possibly native northward. Native alsoof Asia and now almost universally distributed as aweed. White birds-eye. Chicken- or 5. Alsine pubera (Michx.) Britton. Greator Star Chick
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