Any of a number of plants with starlike flowers or leaves.
Stellaria (family Caryophyllaceae), Callitriche (family Callitrichaceae), and other genera: several species, including the lesser stitchwort (S. graminea)
‘When it grows on mud in low-water conditions, the leaves of water starwort are oblong.’
‘Young leaves of common starwort are edible, raw or cooked as a potherb.’
‘River water-crowfoot, water starworts, water cress and lesser and greater pond sedge.’
‘Fully aquatic vascular plants, such as starworts, colonize shallow water, and mosses and algae extend into deep water.’
‘The mountain starwort is a small, slender, rather delicate perennial that is usually less than eighteen inches in height.’
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