Cerastium
| Cerastium | |
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| Cerastium arvense | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 is a genus of annual, winter annual, or perennial plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae. They are commonly called mouse-ear chickweed. Species are found nearly worldwide but the greatest concentration is in the northern temperate regions. There are about 200 species.[1][2] A number are common weeds in fields and on disturbed ground.
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
- – Trans-Pecos chickweed
- – Bering chickweed
- Cerastium biebersteinii – boreal chickweed
- Cerastium brachypetalum – gray chickweed
- – shortstalk chickweed
- Cerastium cerastoides – mountain chickweed
- – forked chickweed
- Cerastium diffusum – fourstamen chickweed
- – doubtful chickweed
- – Fischer's chickweed
- Cerastium fontanum – common mouse-ear chickweed
- – Korean mouse-ear chickweed[3]
- Cerastium glomeratum – sticky chickweed
- – tundra chickweed
- – slender chickweed
- – great chickweed
- Cerastium nigrescens – Shetland mouse-ear chickweed
- – nodding chickweed
- Cerastium pumilum – European chickweed
- Cerastium regelii – Regel's chickweed
- – five-stamen chickweed
- – Chihuahuan chickweed
- Cerastium subtriflorum – Slovenian mouse-ear chickweed
- Cerastium sventenii
- Cerastium sylvaticum
- – Newfoundland mouse-ear chickweed
- – Texas chickweed
- Cerastium tomentosum – snow in summer
- Cerastium utriense
References[]
- ^ Cerastium en PlantList
- ^ 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.
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- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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