| Cerastium arvense L. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Cerastium campestre Greene. | ||
| Description | Grayish-green, finely pubescent, tufted; stem branched from base, with axillary fascicles or leafy tufts; leaves narrowly ovate or linear to linear-subulate, the lower leaves marcescent; bracts broadly scarious-margined; petals two or three times as long as sepals; capsule cylindric, usually longer than calyx. | ||
| Ecology | Dry slopes. Described from southern Sweden, southern Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Highly variable in pubescence and in form of leaves. |
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.