Cerastium tomentosum L.

CARYOPHYLLACEAE

- Pink family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Cerastium tomentosum L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 440 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Snow in summer

English name: dusty-miller

English name: snow-in-harvest

French name: céraiste tomenteux

Italian name: Peverina tormentosa

German name: filziges Hornkraut

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Annual

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TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 1052 ( AVG: 222.32 / 291.376 )

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Cerastium tomentosum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Alture nei pressi di Capestrano., AQ, Abruzzo, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Cerastium tomentosum
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Cerastium tomentosum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Vácrátót, Giardino botanico, Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences., Ungheria, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Cerastium tomentosum
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Cerastium tomentosum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Vienna, Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis, Orto botanico dell'Università di Vienna., Austria, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Cerastium tomentosum
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Cerastium tomentosum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Pavia, Orto Botanico dell'Università di Pavia., PV, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Cerastium tomentosum
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Cerastium tomentosum
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Cerastium tomentosum
Credit: Photo by Villiam Morelli

Cerastium tomentosum
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Cerastium tomentosum
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Cerastium tomentosum
Credit: Photo by Villiam Morelli

Cerastium tomentosum
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Cerastium tomentosum
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
- Lichens - Interactive identification keys to the lichens
- Acta Plantarum - Forum and Image Gallery (Plants, Animals, Mushrooms)

Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (ID, MA, ME, MI, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, UT, VT, WA, WI, WY), CAN (BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC)

Distributional map for Cerastium tomentosum L.
Map for Cerastium tomentosum 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 triviale Link [149]
2) Cerastium vestitum Greene [164]
3) Cerastium villosum Muhl. ex Darl. [149]
4) Cerastium vulgatum L. 1762, non 1755 [150]
5) Cerastium vulgatum L. var. holosteoides auct. non (Fr.) Wahlenb. [88]
6) Cerasus mahaleb (L.) Mill. [147]
7) Ceratocephala falcata auct. non (L.) Pers. [402]
8) Ceratodon conicus (Hampe) Lindb. [128]
9) Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid. var. conicus (Hampe) I. Hagen [132]
10) Ceratonia siliqua L. [1961]

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