| Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Cerastium viscosum L. | ||
| Description | Viscid annual; stem erect, usually branched; leaves ovate; inflorescence with subumbellate terminal clusters; bracts small, herbaceous; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, scarious-margined; petals white, deeply notched, as long as, or longer than, sepals, sometimes missing; capsule slender, about twice as long as sepals. | ||
| Ecology | An introduced weed. Described from Paris. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.