Perennial with a creeping rootstock. Stems ± erect, slender, glabrous. Leaves 10-25 x 3-5 mm, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute, glabrous or ciliate at the base, sessile; midrib prominent. Inflorescence a many-flowered dichasial cyme. Bracts similar to leaves but smaller. Pedicels filiform, much longer than the calyx. Sepals 3-4 mm, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous with scarious margins, 3-nerved. Petals 4, shorter than the sepals, deeply bilobed into linear lobes. Capsule as long as or longer than the sepals, dehiscing to base by 4 valves.

Fl. Per.: July.

Type: Described from Germany.

Distribution: Most of Europe, Balkans, N. Armenia, Temperate and alpine Himalaya.

Common in wet places from 2100-3900 m in northern parts of Pakistan. The species is quite variable in the size and shape of leaves. As pointed out by Rauschert (In Fedde Repert. 83:645.1973), the name Stellaria alsine is inyalid is Grimms did not consistently employ the binomial nomenclature (of C. Linnaeus) for his works between 1767-1773.