Stellaria cuspidataD.F.K.Schltdl.

Mexican starwort

WFO wfo-0000436240 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Stellaria cuspidata, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. a Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-23 / obs. 184289746
Stellaria cuspidata, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. b Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114363940
Stellaria cuspidata, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. c Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87344791
Stellaria cuspidata, photographed by José Gerardo Velasco
fig. d José Gerardo Velasco, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 60148587
Stellaria cuspidata, photographed by Luc Wyn
fig. e Luc Wyn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57138917
Stellaria cuspidata, photographed by Luc Wyn
fig. f Luc Wyn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57137967
Stellaria cuspidata, photographed by Adriana Nelly Correa Sandoval
fig. g Adriana Nelly Correa Sandoval, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56424577
Stellaria cuspidata, photographed by Liliana Ramírez-Freire
fig. h Liliana Ramírez-Freire, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 37578622

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Stellaria cuspidata is native: Florida, Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Texas, Argentina Northwest, Bermuda, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela FloridaLouisianaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestNew MexicoTexasArgentina NorthwestBoliviaColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruVenezuela Bermuda
Native distribution of Stellaria cuspidata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bermuda BER
Bolivia BOL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Louisiana LOU
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
New Mexico NWM
Texas TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alsine baldwinii Small
  • Alsine cuspidata Wooton & Standl.
  • Alsine prostrata (Baldwin) A.Heller
  • Stellaria baldwniini Fenzl ex Peyr.
  • Stellaria ciliata var. cuspidata (D.F.K.Schltdl.) Rohrb.
  • Stellaria cuspidata subsp. cuspidata
  • Stellaria francheti Honda
  • Stellaria leptopetala Benth.
  • Stellaria nemoralis Salisb.
  • Stellaria nemorum f. reichenbachii Murb.
  • Stellaria nemorum var. japonica Franch. & Sav.
  • Stellaria nemorum var. montana Murb.
  • Stellaria prostrata Baldwin
  • Stellaria reichenbachii Wierzb. ex Heuff.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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