Cerastium viscosum L.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Caryophyllaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Viscid-pubescent annual or winter-annual 0.5–3 dm; lvs mostly 1–2.5 cm × 5–15 mm, ovate to obovate or the lower spatulate, obtuse or rounded to acutish; infl compact, or becoming more open in age and then with discrete glomerules of fls; pedicels 1–5 mm, mostly shorter than the sep; bracts wholly herbaceous; sep 4–5 mm, lanceolate, acute, somewhat scarious-margined, the sep and commonly also the bracts provided with long, forward-pointing, eglandular hairs that protrude well beyond the tip, and sometimes glandular as well; pet a little shorter than or about equaling the sep, evidently bifid, commonly to 1 mm or more, or sometimes none; stamens 10; fr 6–8(–10) x 1.5–2 mm, sometimes upcurved; 2n=72. Native of Eurasia, now a cosmopolitan weed, and found ± throughout our range, especially southward. Apr.–July. (C. glomeratum)
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Common Names
clammy chickweed