Cerastium
Cerastium is a genus of annual, winter annual, or perennial flowering plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae. They are commonly called mouse-ears or mouse-ear chickweeds. There are 214 accepted species,[1][2] found nearly worldwide but with the greatest concentration in the northern temperate regions. A number of the species are common weeds in fields and on disturbed ground.
Cerastium uniflorum
Cerastium tolucense
| Cerastium | |
|---|---|
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| Cerastium arvense | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Genus: | Cerastium L. |
| Species | |
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About 200 - see text | |
Cerastium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora chalcogrammella (which feeds exclusively on Cerastium arvense) and Coleophora striatipennella (which has been recorded on Cerastium fontanum).
Selected species
- Cerastium aleuticum – Aleutian chickweed
- Cerastium alpinum – alpine chickweed
- Cerastium arcticum – arctic mouse-ear chickweed
- Cerastium arvense – field chickweed
- Cerastium axillare – Trans-Pecos chickweed
- Cerastium beeringianum – Bering chickweed
- Cerastium bialynickii
- Cerastium biebersteinii – boreal chickweed
- Cerastium brachypetalum – gray chickweed
- Cerastium brachypodum – shortstalk chickweed
- Cerastium cerastoides – mountain chickweed
- Cerastium dichotomum – forked chickweed
- Cerastium diffusum – fourstamen chickweed
- Cerastium fischerianum – Fischer's chickweed
- Cerastium fontanum – common mouse-ear chickweed
- Cerastium furcatum – Korean mouse-ear chickweed[3]
- Cerastium glomeratum – sticky chickweed
- Cerastium gracile – slender chickweed
- Cerastium holosteoides – common mouse-ear chickweed
- Cerastium maximum – great chickweed
- Cerastium nigrescens – Shetland mouse-ear chickweed
- Cerastium nutans – nodding chickweed
- Cerastium pumilum – European chickweed
- Cerastium regelii – Regel's chickweed
- Cerastium semidecandrum – five-stamen chickweed
- Cerastium subtriflorum – Slovenian mouse-ear chickweed
- Cerastium sventenii
- Cerastium sylvaticum
- Cerastium terrae-novae – Newfoundland mouse-ear chickweed
- Cerastium texanum – Texas chickweed
- Cerastium tomentosum – snow-in-summer
- Cerastium uniflorum - glacier mouse-ear
- Cerastium utriense
References
- "Cerastium Tourn. ex L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- Cerastium. Flora of North America.
- English Names for Korean Native Plants (PDF). Pocheon: Korea National Arboretum. 2015. p. 405. ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2016 – via Korea Forest Service.
- "Cerastium". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
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