Cerastium glomeratum |
Cerastium tomentosum |
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céraiste aggloméré, large mouse ears, sticky chickweed, sticky mouse-ear chickweed |
céraiste tomenteux, dusty miller, snow-in-summer, snow-in-summer chickweed, tomentose chickweed |
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Habit | Plants annual, with slender taproots. | Plants perennial, mat-forming, rhizomatous. |
Stems | erect or ascending, branched, 5–45 cm, hairy, glandular at least distally, rarely eglandular; small axillary tufts of leaves absent. |
flowering stems ascending, branched, 15–40 cm; nonflowering stems prostrate proximally, rooting readily, pubescence dense, white-tomentose, eglandular; small axillary tufts of leaves often present. |
Leaves | not marcescent, ± sessile; blade 5–20(–30) × 2–8(–15) mm, apex apiculate, covered with spreading, white, long hairs; basal with blade oblanceolate or obovate, narrowed proximally, sometimes spatulate; cauline with blade broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate. |
not marcescent, sessile; blade linear to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 10–60 × 2–8 mm, apex ± obtuse, pubescence dense, whitish-tomentose, eglandular on both surfaces. |
Inflorescences | 3–50-flowered, aggregated into dense, cymose clusters or in more-open dichasia; bracts: proximal herbaceous, distal lanceolate, apex acute, with long, mainly eglandular hairs. |
lax, 3–13-flowered cymes; bracts lanceolate, margins scarious, pubescent. |
Pedicels | erect to spreading, often arcuate distally, 0.1–5 mm, shorter than capsule, glandular-pubescent. |
ascending, straight, 10–40 mm, 2–7 times as long as sepals, white-tomentose. |
Flowers | sepals green, rarely dark-red tipped, lanceolate, 4–5 mm, margins narrow, apex very acute, usually with glandular hairs as well as long white hairs usually extending beyond apex; petals oblanceolate, 3–5 mm, rarely absent, usually shorter than sepals, apex deeply 2-fid; stamens 10; styles 5. |
12–20 mm diam.; sepals narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, 5–7 mm, margins narrow, often scarious, apex acute, white-tomentose; petals obtriangular, 10–18 mm, 2–2.5 times as long as sepals, apex 2-fid; stamens 10; styles 5. |
Capsules | narrowly cylindric, curved, 7–10 mm; teeth 10, erect, margins convolute. |
cylindric, slightly curved, 10–15 mm, 1.5–2 times as long as sepals; teeth 10, erect, margins convolute. |
Seeds | pale brown, 0.5–0.6 mm, finely tuberculate; testa inflated or not. |
brown, ca. 1.5 mm, round tubercles on margins, faces shallowly rugose; testa not inflated. |
2n | = 72. |
= 72. |
Cerastium glomeratum |
Cerastium tomentosum |
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Phenology | Flowering throughout growing season. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Arable land, waste places, roadsides | A commonly grown rock-garden and wall plant, often escaping onto roadsides, riverbanks, old fields |
Elevation | 0-1800 m (0-5900 ft) | 0-400 m (0-1300 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; AL; AR; AZ; CA; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MI; MO; MS; MT; NC; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; WA; WV; BC; NF; NS; ON; QC; YT; Europe [Introduced in North America; introduced and common in Mexico]
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ME; MI; MT; NC; NE; NY; OH; OR; PA; WA; WI; WY; BC; MB; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC; se Europe [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion | Cerastium glomeratum often has been reported as C. viscosum Linneaus, an ambiguous name; see discussion under the genus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Cerastium tomentosum hybridizes readily with the introduced C. arvense subsp. arvense (J. K. Morton 1973). North American reports of Cerastium biebersteinii de Candolle all appear to be referable to C. tomentosum. The two species are very similar, but C. biebersteinii has flat capsule teeth and is diploid (2n = 36); see M. K. Khalaf and C. A. Stace (2001). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 87. | FNA vol. 5, p. 91. |
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Alsinoideae > Cerastium | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Alsinoideae > Cerastium |
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Synonyms | C. acutatum, C. fulvum | |
Name authority | Thuillier: Fl. Env. Paris ed. 2, 226. (1799) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 440. (1753) |
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