Associations
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Foodplant / pathogen
embedded sorus of Haradaea duriaeana infects and damages live ovary of Cerastium glomeratum
Foodplant / saprobe
erumpent apothecium of Leptotrochila cerastiorum is saprobic on fading stem of Cerastium glomeratum
Foodplant / parasite
mostly hypophyllous uredium of Melampsorella caryophyllacearum parasitises live leaf of Cerastium glomeratum
Foodplant / parasite
sporangium of Peronospora tomentosa parasitises live Cerastium glomeratum
Comments
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Cerastium glomeratum often has been reported as C. viscosum Linneaus, an ambiguous name; see discussion under the genus.
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Description
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Plants annual, with slender taproots. Stems erect or ascending, branched, 5-45 cm, hairy, glandular at least distally, rarely eglandular; small axillary tufts of leaves absent. Leaves not marcescent, ± sessile; blade 5-20(-30) × 2-8(-15) mm, apex apiculate, covered with spreading, white, long hairs; basal with blade oblanceolate or obovate, narrowed proximally, sometimes spatulate; cauline with blade broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate. Inflorescences 3-50-flowered, aggregated into dense, cymose clusters or in more-open dichasia; bracts: proximal herbaceous, distal lanceolate, apex acute, with long, mainly eglandular hairs. Pedicels erect to spreading, often arcuate distally, 0.1-5 mm, shorter than capsule, glandular-pubescent. Flowers: sepals green, rarely dark-red tipped, lanceolate, 4-5 mm, margins narrow, apex very acute, usually with glandular hairs as well as long white hairs usually extending beyond apex; petals oblanceolate, 3-5 mm, rarely absent, usually shorter than sepals, apex deeply 2-fid; stamens 10; styles 5. Capsules narrowly cylindric, curved, 7-10 mm; teeth 10, erect, margins convolute. Seeds pale brown, 0.5-0.6 mm, finely tuberculate; testa inflated or not. 2n = 72.
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Description
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Herbs annual, 10--20 cm tall. Stems simple or caespitose, densely villous, distally glandular pubescent. Proximal leaves spatulate; distal leaves obovate-elliptic, 1.5--2.5 × 0.5--1 cm, base attenuate into a short petiole, both surfaces villous, midvein prominent, margin ciliate. Inflorescence of compact, cymose clusters (glomerules); rachis densely glandular pubescent; bracts leaflike, ovate-elliptic, densely pubescent. Pedicel 1--3 mm, densely pubescent. Sepals 5, lanceolate, ca. 4 mm, abaxially densely long glandular pubescent, margin narrowly membranous, apex acute. Petals 5, white, oblong, subequaling or slightly longer than sepals, base pilose, apex 2-lobed. Stamens shorter than sepals. Styles 5. Capsule cylindric, subequaling or 1.5--2 × as long as calyx, 10-toothed. Seeds brown, compressed triangular, tuberculate. Fl. Mar--Apr, fr. May--Jun.
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Distribution
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A cosmopolitan weed.
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Distribution
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Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Shandong, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [cosmopolitan weed].
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Distribution
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introduced; B.C., Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.), N.S., Ont., Que., Yukon; Ala., Alaska, Ariz., Ark., Calif., Conn., Del., D.C., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Kans., Ky., La., Md., Mass., Mich., Miss., Mo., Mont., Nev., N.J., N.Mex., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Oreg., Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., Wash., W.Va.; Europe; introduced and common in Mexico.
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Elevation Range
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1500-3800 m
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Flowering/Fruiting
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Flowering throughout growing season.
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Habitat
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Forest margins, mountain slope grasslands, sandy riversides; 100--3700 m.
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Habitat
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Arable land, waste places, roadsides; 0-1800m.
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Synonym
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Cerastium acutatum Suksdorf; C. fulvum Rafinesque
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Derivation of specific name
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glomeratum: clustered
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=123260
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Description
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Annual herb to 30 cm, glandular-hairy at least above. Leaves: basal oblanceolate to obovate, stem leaves sessile, broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate, with long silky hairs. Petals about equalling or shorter than the sepals, white, apex 2-fid for up to 1/4 of the petal length.
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Frequency
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Locally common in the E division, rare or absent elsewhere.
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Worldwide distribution
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Cosmopolitan temperate and tropical weed.
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Cerastium glomeratum
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Cerastium glomeratum is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names sticky mouse-ear chickweed and clammy chickweed. It is native to Europe, Macaronesia to Assam but is known on most continents as an introduced species.[1] It grows in many types of habitat. The blooming period is February, March, April, and May.[2]
Description
The upper stem and flowers are covered in glandular hairs
This is an annual herb growing from a slender taproot. It produces a branched stem up to 45 centimeters tall, with abundant glandular and non-glandular hairs. The leaves are opposite, hairy, up to 2 cm long, and the basal ones typically die back before flowering. The bracts are green, hairy and generally similar to the leaves.
The inflorescence bears as few as 3 or as many as 50 small, dioecious flowers arranged in a cyme and borne on very short pedicels. Each flower has 5 hairy green sepals which are occasionally red-tipped, and 5 white bifid petals which are a few millimeters long and generally about the same length as the sepals. The fruit is a capsule less than a centimeter long which is tipped with ten tiny teeth.[3][4]
Identification
The flowers of sticky mouse-ear are often bunched together, on short stalks
This plant usually has abundant glandular hairs towards the top of the stem and on the sepals. Because it is an annual, plants are easily uprooted and every stem develops flowers. The flowers are also borne on very short pedicels (stalks), so they tend to occur in tight clusters.[3]
Taxonomy
It was named by Jean Louis Thuillier in his "Flore des Environs de Paris" (1800). Many synonyms have been coined over the years, which are listed in the Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular plants of the World. Many forms, varieties and subspecies have also been named, but none is now widely accepted. It is not known to hybridise with any other species.[5]
Its chromosome number is 2n=72.[3]
Habitat
Frequent in waste places,[4] walls, banks and arable land.[6][7]
Uses
The leaves and shoots were used as a wild food in ancient China.[8] In Nepal, the juice of this plant was applied to the forehead to relieve headaches. The juice could also be dropped into the nostrils to treat nosebleeds.[9]
The leaves can also be boiled and eaten.[10]
References
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^ "Cerastium glomeratum Thuill". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
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^ "Calflora: Cerastium glomeratum". www.calflora.org. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
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^ a b c Stace, C.A. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles. Suffolk. ISBN 978-1-5272-2630-2.
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^ a b Parnell, J. and Curtis, T. 2012 Webb's An Irish Flora. Cork University Press. ISBN 978-185918-4783
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^ Stace, C.A. (1975). Hybridization and the Flora of the British Isles. London: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-661650-7.
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^ Hackney, P. (editor) 1992. Stewart & Corry's Flora of the North-east of Ireland. Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast. ISBN 0-85389-446-9
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^ Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. and Warburg, E.F. 1968. Excursion Flora of the British Isles. Second edition. Cambridge University Press.
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^ Read. B.E. (1977) Famine Foods of the Chiu-Huang Pen-ts'ao. Southern Materials Centre, Taipei.
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^ "Cerastium glomeratum sticky chickweed PFAF Plant Database". www.pfaf.org. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
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^ Niering, William A.; Olmstead, Nancy C. (1985) [1979]. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Eastern Region. Knopf. p. 455. ISBN 0-394-50432-1.
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Cerastium glomeratum: Brief Summary
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Cerastium glomeratum is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names sticky mouse-ear chickweed and clammy chickweed. It is native to Europe, Macaronesia to Assam but is known on most continents as an introduced species. It grows in many types of habitat. The blooming period is February, March, April, and May.
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