Stellaria nemorumL.

wood stitchwort

WFO wfo-0000436803 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Stellaria nemorum, photographed by Анна Рыбакова
fig. a Анна Рыбакова, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205742137
Stellaria nemorum, photographed by Andreas Stiller
fig. b Andreas Stiller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205448518
Stellaria nemorum, photographed by Анна Рыбакова
fig. c Анна Рыбакова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205741965
Stellaria nemorum, photographed by Elias
fig. d Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204917961
Stellaria nemorum, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. e Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205497737
Stellaria nemorum, photographed by Elias
fig. f Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203568288
Stellaria nemorum, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. g Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203138319
Stellaria nemorum, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. h Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202773656

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Native range 36 botanical countries

Regions where Stellaria nemorum is native: China North-Central, Iran, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine China North-CentralIranMongoliaNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Stellaria nemorum, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Flowering 342 in flower of 381 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Stellaria nemorum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 342 of 381 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 11 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 media var. nemorum (L.) Kuntze
  • Alsine nemorum Macl.
  • Alsine nemorum Schreb.
  • Cerastium nemorum Crantz
  • Stellaria ciliata Vahl ex Pers.
  • Stellaria limitanea Standl.
  • Stellaria montana Pierrat
  • Stellaria nemorum subsp. circaeoides A.F.Schwarz
  • Stellaria nemorum var. bracteata Fenzl
  • Stellaria nemorum var. bungeana Regel
  • Stellaria nemorum var. subebracteata Fenzl

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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