Scientific name: Stellaria graminea L.
Common name: Lesser Stichwort
Description
Habit: A hairless perennial, to 80 cm high.
Stems: Slender, straggling, weak stems, with smooth angles, hairless.
Leaves: Opposite, stalkless, simple, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 15-25 mm.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, in cymes; sepals 5; petals 5, about equaling sepals, divided almost to the base into two narrow lobes; stamens 10; styles 3, ovary superior.
Fruits: A capsule.
Habitat: Hedges, roadsides, meadows, rough grazing and ditches.
Distribution: Common in the southern Burren, occasional elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No