Stellaria nemorum L.

Herbaceous glabrous to pubescent profusely branching perennials, prostrate, spreading or clambering. Leaves opposite, glabrous to viscid-villous, ovate, apically acute to attenuate, basally truncate to cordate, 10-50 mm. long, 5-35 mm. broad, all except the uppermost petiolate, the petioles 5-40 mm. long. Flowers solitary, axillary or terminal, or in terminal few-flowered cymes, the glabrous to villous pedicels 5-45 mm. long, often exceeding the subtending leaves. Sepals 5, lanceolate to ovate, acute to attenuate, glabrous to villous, 4-6 mm. long; petals 5, obovoid, deeply 2-cleft, 6-12 mm. long; stamens 10, the filaments flattened, 3-8 mm. long; ovary sessile, globose to ovoid; styles usually 3, 2-3 mm. long, the numerous ovules campylotropous on basal or free central placentae. Capsule ovoid, 4-7 mm. long, the 3 valves deeply 2-cleft; seeds numerous, ca. 1 mm. broad, cochleate, dark reddish brown, tuberculate, the spines usually broader than long.