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Scientific or common name:

Cerastium tenuifolium Pursh


CARYOPHYLLACEAE Family selection - Pink family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Cerastium tenuifolium Pursh Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Fl. Amer. Sept. (Pursh) 1: 321. 1813 [Dec 1813]
Rank: species
See: ► Cerastium arvense L. ssp. strictum (L.) Ugborogho

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Field chickweed

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Cerastium arvense L. ssp. strictum (L.) Ugborogho
= Cerastium alsophilum Greene
= Cerastium angustatum Greene
= Cerastium arvense L. var. angustifolium Fenzl
= Cerastium arvense L. var. latifolium Fenzl
= Cerastium arvense L. var. purpurascens B. Boivin
= Cerastium arvense L. var. viscidulum Gremli
= Cerastium campestre Greene
= Cerastium confertum Greene
= Cerastium effusum Greene
= Cerastium elongatum Pursh
= Cerastium graminifolium Rydb.
= Cerastium latifolium L.
= Cerastium nitidum Greene
= Cerastium occidentale Greene
= Cerastium oreophilum Greene
= Cerastium patulum Greene
= Cerastium scopulorum Greene
= Cerastium sonnei Greene
= Cerastium strictum L.
= Cerastium subulatum Greene
= Cerastium vestitum Greene



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Cerastium
Species:


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SD, TN, UT, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

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Map for Cerastium tenuifolium Pursh
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Cerastium tetrandrum W. Curtis [145]
2) Cerastium tomentosum L. [1062]
3) Cerastium trigynum Vill. [89]
4) Cerastium vestitum Greene [165]
5) Cerastium viscosum auct. non L. [176]
6) Cerastium vulgatum L. var. holosteoides auct. non (Fr.) Wahlenb. [92]
7) Cerasus mahaleb (L.) Mill. [149]
8) Ceratocephala testiculata (Crantz) Roth [345]
9) Ceratodon heterophyllus Kindb. [193]
10) Ceratoides arborescens (Loisinsk.) C.P. Tsien & C.G. Ma [140]

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