PLANTS Profile for Cerastium semidecandrum (fivestamen chickweed)

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PLANTS Profile

Cerastium semidecandrum L.
fivestamen chickweed

Symbol:

CESE4

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Caryophyllaceae

Duration:

Growth Habit:

Native Status:

L48		I
CAN		I

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Line Drawing of Cerastium semidecandrum L.

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 2: 47. Courtesy of Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

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Cerastium semidecandrum L.

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Native Status:
Cerastium semidecandrum L.


View Distribution	Native Introduced

See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:
USA (AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, WV), CAN (BC, NB, NS, ON)

Related Taxa:
Cerastium semidecandrum L.

View 42 genera in Caryophyllaceae, 28 species in Cerastium

Classification:
Cerastium semidecandrum L.

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Caryophyllidae
Order	Caryophyllales
Family	Caryophyllaceae – Pink family
Genus	Cerastium L. – mouse-ear chickweed
Species	Cerastium semidecandrum L. – fivestamen chickweed

Introduced Information:
Cerastium semidecandrum L.

This plant is introduced to some part of the PLANTS Floristic Area, though it may be native in other parts. Click on link below for a partial or complete list of PFA introduced plants.

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More Accounts and Images:
Cerastium semidecandrum L.

View species account and distribution map from Flora of North America (FNA).

View species account and distribution from USF Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 19961.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

View species account and photographs from University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Freckmann Herbarium.

Time Generated: 05/21/2013 02:42 AM CDT