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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Caryophyllaceae — including stitchwort and chickweed.

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Examples

  • On rocky and gravelly beaches there are gravel sedge Carex glareosa, sea plantain Plantago maritima, Greenland scurvygrass Cochlearia groenlandica and low stitchwort Stellaria humifusa.

    Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

  • At higher elevations, species of Saxifraga, Allium, Corydalis, Eriophyton, Stellaria, Soroseris, and Cremanthodium grow on the alpine scree with scattered rocks and boulders.

    Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows 2008

  • For example, Salix paludicola, chickweed Stellaria pterosperma, Aconite Aconitum yamazakii, and Draba nakaiana are endemic to Mt. Daisetsu.

    Hokkaido montane conifer forests 2007

  • Extirpated species include birds such as the South Island subspecies of the endangered kokako (Callaeas cinerea cinerea) and the extinct piopio (Turnagra capensis), the grayling fish (Prototroctes oxyrhynchus), and plants like Stellaria elantinoides.

    Southland temperate forests 2007

  • Violet (Viola tricolor) or chickweed (Stellaria media) poultice for the relief of fever, pain and inflammation.

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • It is best to use a light linen, flannel, or gauze bandage which has been saturated with a warm tea of oak bark (Quercus sp.), calendula flowers (C. officinalis), chamomile flowers, duckweed (Stellaria media), violet or pansy (Viola tricolor), or walnut leaves.

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • Chickweed -- called _Alsine_ or _Stellaria media_, a floral star of middle magnitude -- belongs to the Clove-pink order of plants, and, despite the most severe weather, grows with us all the year round, in waste places by the roadsides, and as a garden weed.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • The Stitchworts, greater and less (_Stellaria holostea_), grow very abundantly as herbal weeds in all our dry hedges and woods, having tough stems which run closely together, and small white star-like

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Along the watercourse Symplocos styracifolius, which becomes a middling-sized tree, was seen, and Stellaria cana, petalis albis profunda partitus, as well as

    Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

  • _Stellaria media_ where the condition appeared to be due to the attacks of an insect _Thrips fasciata_.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

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