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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Stellaria neglecta
|accepted_authority=Weihe in M. J. Bluff et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in M. J. Bluff et al., Comp. Fl. German.
|place=1: 560. 1825
|year=1825
}}
|common_names=Greater chickweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsine neglecta
|authority=(Weihe) Á. Löve & D. Löve
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Stellaria media subsp. neglecta
|authority=(Weihe) Murbeck
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Stellaria;Stellaria neglecta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Stellaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Stellaria neglecta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 97, 109
|treatment_page=page 110
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or winter annual, from slender taproot. <b>Stems</b> decumbent proximally, ascending distally, diffusely branched, 4-angled, to 80 cm, with single line of hairs along each internode. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate (proximal and those on sterile shoots) or sessile (distal and mid stem); blade ovate to broadly elliptic, 0.5–4 cm × 2–18 mm, base round to cuneate, margins entire with few cilia at base, thin, apex acute to short-acuminate, ± glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, 9–many-flowered cymes; bracts ovate to lanceolate, 3–25 mm, reduced distally, herbaceous, sparsely ciliate on margins and underside. <b>Pedicels</b> erect, often becoming deflexed, 5–40 mm, pubescence a single line of hairs. <b>Flowers</b> 5–7 mm diam.; sepals 5, veins obscure, lanceolate, 5–6.5 mm, margins narrow, membranous, apex acute, pubescent; petals 5 (rarely absent), 2–5 mm, shorter than or equaling sepals; stamens 8–10; styles 3, ascending, outwardly curved, 0.5–1 mm. <b>Capsules</b> green to straw colored, ovoid-oblong, 5–7 mm, ca. equaling sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 6 slightly recurved valves; caropohore absent. <b>Seeds</b> very dark brown when mature, round, 1.1–1.7 mm diam., tuberculate; tubercles conic, taller than broad, apex acute. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Hedge banks, open woodlands, along streams, semishaded grassy places
|elevation=100-200 m
|distribution=Ark.;Calif.;Ky.;La.;Md.;N.C.;Okla.;Tenn.;Europe.
|discussion=<p>Formerly, <i>Stellaria neglecta</i> was rare in North America, but during the last ten to 15 years it has spread rapidly and become weedy. It is very like larger forms of <i>S. media</i> (see note under that species), but usually differs in having larger flowers, sepals, and seeds; having a larger number of stamens; and having seeds with acute conic tubercles. Flowers are self-compatible but usually are pollinated by flies.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Stellaria neglecta
|author=
|authority=Weihe in M. J. Bluff et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsine neglecta;Stellaria media subsp. neglecta
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Hedge banks, open woodlands, along streams, semishaded grassy places
|elevation=100-200 m
|distribution=Ark.;Calif.;Ky.;La.;Md.;N.C.;Okla.;Tenn.;Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in M. J. Bluff et al., Comp. Fl. German.
|publication year=1825
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_228.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Stellaria
|species=Stellaria neglecta
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