Starry campion

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Starry campion

Starry campion calyx

Starry campion

Starry campion leaves

Starry campion fruit

Starry campion leaves

Starry campion

Starry campion flower

Starry campion leaves

Starry campion flowers

Morphology

Stem

Erect, several, simple to inflorescence, often purplish, sparsely to densely rough-hairy.

Leaves

Mostly in whorls of 4 but occasionally opposite, simple, sessile, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.5 to 4.5 inches long, .5 to 1.75 inch wide, minutely hairy; margins entire; tips tapered to points.

Inflorescence

Panicles, loose, several to many flowers, terminal.

Flower

Showy, about 3/4 to 1 inch wide, short-stalked; calyces bell- or funnel-shaped, 5-toothed, 10-nerved, finely hairy, teeth broadly triangular; petals 5, 1/3 to 2/3 inch long, white; tips deeply fringed into 8-12 lobes; stamens 10, threadlike, protruding past petals.

Fruit

Capsules, nearly spherical, 6-toothed, firm; seeds many, purplish brown.

Ecology

Habitat

Woods and thickets, in sandy or clay soils.

Distribution

East 1/3 of Kansas.

Additional Notes