Cerastium arvense L.

CARYOPHYLLACEAE

- Pink family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Cerastium arvense L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 438 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Field chickweed

English name: field chickweed

English name: field mouse-ear

French name: céraiste des champs

Italian name: Peverina dei campi

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

TAXONOMY

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

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Cerastium arvense
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Ferrara del Monte Baldo, località Novezzina, Orto Botanico del Monte Baldo, VR, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Cerastium arvense
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Cerastium arvense
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Cerastium arvense
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Cerastium arvense
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Cerastium arvense
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Cerastium arvense
Credit: Photo by Daniele Carbini

Cerastium arvense
NPS Photo - Bryan Harry - 1965 - Public domain image.

Cerastium arvense
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 49.

Cerastium arvense
Carole Ritchie - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Cerastium arvense
Credit: Photo by Franco Rossi

Cerastium arvense
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Cerastium arvense
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Cerastium arvense
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Cerastium arvense
Credit: Photo by Daniele Carbini

Cerastium arvense
Credit: Photo by Franco Rossi

Cerastium arvense
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

Cerastium arvense
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Cerastium arvense
Credit: Photo by Daniele Carbini

Cerastium arvense
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Cerastium arvense
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Cerastium arvense
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Cerastium arvense
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Cerastium arvense
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, 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, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Cerastium arvense L.
Map for Cerastium arvense L.
(*) 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 arvense L. ssp. arvense [1446]
2) Cerastium arvense L. ssp. strictum (L.) Ugborogho [399]
3) Cerastium arvense L. var. angustifolium Fenzl [184]
4) Cerastium arvense L. var. fuegianum Hook. f. [131]
5) Cerastium arvense L. var. maximum Hollick & Britton [149]
6) Cerastium arvense L. var. villosissimum Pennell [129]
7) Cerastium beeringianum Cham. & Schltdl. var. aleuticum (Hultén) S.L. Welsh [153]
8) Cerastium brachypodum (Engelm. ex A. Gray) B.L. Rob. var. compactum B.L. Rob. [124]
9) Cerastium diffusum Pers. [742]
10) Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. [698]

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