Flareweed Stalk
Harvesting
- Category
- Flora
- Sub-type
- S1
Where to find
Where this harvestable spawns, sourced from game data and the Star Citizen wiki.
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
The harvestable stalk of the flareweed, a hardy plant whose natural water-filtering ability makes its stalks a sought-after material for filtration systems.
What it is
Flareweed Stalk is a hand-harvestable botanical item (the harvested fruit/stalk of the flareweed plant) in Star Citizen, classified by the game as a miscellaneous harvestable with the internal class name `harvestable_base_Flareweed`. It is a small object (Size 1 / S1 harvestable) with a cargo volume of roughly 1 cSCU — small enough to be picked up by hand and carried in a personal inventory or backpack. The data files indicate there are around 16 related harvestable plant variants tied to the flareweed base entry, consistent with how the game scatters several harvestable models around the world.
Sources:starcitizen.toolsapi.star-citizen.wikifinder.cstone.space
Gameplay use
Flareweed Stalk is part of the on-foot harvestables loop introduced with personal inventory (Alpha 3.7): players locate the plant in the world, harvest the stalk by hand, stow it, and carry it off to sell or use. In-fiction it is valued as a raw material for water-filtration systems rather than as a food or medical consumable. As of the current data, it is not sold at any vendor and has no documented buy price — it is a player-gathered material. No specific crafting recipe or Wikelo (Banu trader) turn-in requiring Flareweed Stalk is confirmed in the sources reviewed; that link, if it exists, is undocumented.
Sources:starcitizen.toolsfinder.cstone.spacerobertsspaceindustries.com
Value & where to sell
No reliable aUEC price is currently published for Flareweed Stalk. The major trading databases (UEX Corp, cstone/Universal Item Finder) list it with "no prices available" and mark it as not sold directly, meaning there is no confirmed vendor sell location at this time. Prices and sell points for harvestables are volatile and frequently change between patches, so this should be re-checked against live UEX/cstone data. For context, low-value harvestables of this class typically sell for only modest sums (a full backpack of cheap harvestables can be worth on the order of ~1k aUEC).
Sources:finder.cstone.spaceuexcorp.spaceapi.star-citizen.wiki
Where to harvest
Specific systems, planets, or moons for Flareweed Stalk are not documented in the available sources. As a Size 1 hand-harvestable, it follows the general harvestables pattern: such plants are found scattered on planet and moon surfaces (and harvestable minerals/flora are commonly found in and around caves). Some hand-pickable plants can be detected by ships with scanners. Exact spawn biomes for flareweed specifically are not confirmed and should be verified in-game or against an updated harvestable-location resource.
Source
The item comes from the flareweed plant (not from a creature). Flareweed is described as a hearty plant that survives in harsh environments and naturally filters harmful elements out of its water supply; the stalk is the harvested portion.
Grades & variants
No graded tiers (e.g. A/AA/AAA) are documented for Flareweed Stalk; it appears as a single base harvestable rather than a quality-graded item. The game data does reference roughly 16 related flareweed harvestable variants, but these read as model/placement variations rather than value grades. No grade-specific distinction is established for this item.
Effects
No consumable, medical, buff, or poison effects are documented for Flareweed Stalk. It is treated as a raw industrial/filtration material rather than an edible or medical flora, so no in-game effects apply when carried.
Lore
In the Star Citizen universe, flareweed is a resilient plant able to thrive in harsh environments thanks to a natural ability to filter harmful chemicals and metals out of the water it draws. Because of this filtering property, its stalks are frequently harvested for use in water-filtration systems. The plant has its own Galactapedia (RSI's in-universe encyclopedia) entry.
Trivia
The item is internally a "base" harvestable (`harvestable_base_Flareweed`) seen in game version data around 4.8.0-LIVE, and trading/database sites still lack an image and pricing for it, suggesting it remains lightly used and sparsely traded.
Some data from starcitizen.tools (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).