Stellaria diversiflora var. diversiflora("Sawahakobe")
Japanese name: サワハコベ（沢繁縷） Scientific name:Stellaria diversiflora var. diversiflora
[Overview]
A perennial growing along mountain streams.
The stem is 5–30 cm long, creeping along the ground in the lower part and rooting at the nodes, and branches in the upper part.
The stem is hairless.
Leaves are simple and opposite, ovate to triangular-ovate, 1–4 cm long and 0.8–2.5 cm wide, with a pointed tip and appressed hairs on the upper surface.
The leaves on the lower part of the stem have petioles.
The flowers are solitary in the leaf axils, 1–1.5 cm across, white with 5 petals, and the petals are 2-lobed.
There are 2–10 stamens.
The calyx is almost as long as the petals and pointed at the tip.
Sometimes flowers without petals are produced.
The flower stalks are hairless.
The fruit is a spherical capsule.
The seeds are elliptical, 1.5 mm across and black, with cylindrical projections on the surface.
