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Cerastium glomeratum

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Name

Identification
Cerastium semidecandrum L. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE ] (stored under name); Cerastium semidecandrum L. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE ] Verified by James L. Reveal, Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE ] Verified by John Kenneth Morton, Cerastium vulgatum L. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE ] Verified by John Kenneth Morton, Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE ] Verified by James L. Reveal,
Related name
  • Sagina erecta
  • Cerastium vulgatum
  • Cerastium c. glomeratum thuill. x c. humifusum cambess.
  • Cerastium glomeratum
  • Holosteum filiforme
  • Cerastium acutatum
  • Moenchia erecta
  • Moenchia filiforme
  • Cerastium holosteoides
  • Cerastium not on sheet
  • Cerastium octandrum
  • Cerastium semidecandrum
  • Stellaria not on sheet
  • Moenchia octandra
  • Cerastium celebicum
  • Silene not on sheet
Common name
  • Sticky mouse-ear chickweed, Flora of North America Vol. 5
  • céraiste aggloméré, Flora of North America Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for CERASTIUM viscosum Linn. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 120, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
CERASTIUM viscosum Linn. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE], Sp. p. 627. excl. syn.;—E. & Z.! 269.
CERASTIUM vulgatum [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE], L. Herb., non Sp. pl. E. Bot. t. 789. E. & Z. 267 ex parte.
CERASTIUM glomeratum Thuill. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE], Fl. Dan. t. 1921.
CERASTIUM ovale Pers. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE], Syn. 1. p. 521.
Information
annual, clothed with a soft, glandular or non-glandular pubescence; stem erect or ascending, branched; leaves subrotund and oval, the lower tapering into a petiole; cymes many-flowered, with glomerate branches, all the bracts herbaceous and the calyces bearded at tip; fruiting pedicels as long as the calyx or shorter. 6–12 inches high, yellowish-green, the branches mostly ascending. Leaves larger than in the preceding. Panicle cymoid, crowded, at length more effuse and open. Fruit stalks erect or inclined. Petals as long as the calyx; capsule twice as long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape Flats and round Table Mt., in sandy places, E. & Z.! Groenekloof and the Paarl, Drege! (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.).

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