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Cerastium glomeratum Thuill., Fl. Env. Paris ed. 2: 226 1799. (Syn. Alsine glomerata (Thuill.) E.H.L.Krause; Cerastium acutatum Suksd.; Cerastium alpinum Bunge [Illegitimate]; Cerastium apetalum Dumort.; Cerastium arenosum Kit.; Cerastium brachycarpum Stapf; Cerastium consanguineum Wedd.; Cerastium constantinopolitanum Nyman; Cerastium fulvum Raf.; Cerastium glomeratum f. apetalum (Dumort.) Trinajstić; Cerastium glomeratum var. glomeratum ; Cerastium hirsutum Muhl.; Cerastium mauritianum Bouton ex Baker; Cerastium membranaceum Jacquem. ex Hook.f.; Cerastium minutulum Des Moul. ex Steud.; Cerastium ovale Pers.; Cerastium pilosum Fisch. ex Ledeb.; Cerastium pseudoviscosum Schur; Cerastium pumilum Raf. [Illegitimate]; Cerastium rotundifolium Fisch.; Cerastium serpyllifolium M.Bieb. ex Ser.; Cerastium sibiricum Turcz. ex Ledeb.; Cerastium simense Hochst. ex A.Rich.; Cerastium stevenii Schischk.; Cerastium sylvaticum Steven ex Ledeb. [Illegitimate]; Cerastium tenellum Gaudin ex Ser.; Cerastium tomentosum Bojer [Illegitimate]; Cerastium villosum Steven [Illegitimate]; Cerastium viscosioides Candargy; Cerastium viscosum var. consanguineum (Wedd.) Rohrb.; Cerastium viscosum var. viscosum ; Cerastium vulgatum L. [Invalid]; Cerastium vulgatum var. glomeratum (Thuill.) Edgew. & Hook.f.);
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mouse ear chickweed, Large mouse ears, Mouseear chickweed, Sticky Chickweed • Nepali: मुस्काने Musakane;
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Annual herbs, 10-45 cm high, glandular-pubescent; flowering shoots erect or ascending. Leaves subsessile, 10-25 x 6-9 mm, oblong, lanceolate, ovate, obovate or elliptic, basal ones sometimes spathulate, obtuse at base, entire and ciliate at margin, obtuse and apiculate at apex, white-hairy. Cymes clustered; flowers lax; bracts lanceolate, ca 5 x 3 mm, herbaceous, hairy; pedicels 2-5 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate at apex, 4-5 x 1-1.5 mm, pubescent. Petals 2-fid, much longer than sepals, white. Stamens 5(-10). Capsules cylindric, curved above, 8-11 mm long, scarious, straw-coloured, dehiscing by 10 straight teeth; seeds ovoid, ca 0.5 x 0.3 mm, rugose-tubercled, pale brown. Flowering and fruiting: Throughout the year
Weed along the roadsides and degraded forest areas in the high ranges
India, Bhutan and Nepal
Cerastium glomeratum is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names sticky mouse-ear chickweed and clammy chickweed. It is probably native to Eurasia but it is known on most continents as an introduced species. It grows in many types of habitat.
This is an annual herb growing from a slender taproot. It produces a branched, hairy stem up to 40 or 45 centimeters tall. The hairy leaves are up to 2 or 3 centimeters long. The inflorescence bears as few as 3 or as many as 50 small flowers. The flower has five hairy green sepals which are occasionally red-tipped, and five white two-lobed petals which are a few millimeters long and generally shorter than the sepals. Some flowers lack petals. The fruit is a capsule less than a centimeter long which is tipped with ten tiny teeth.
Panipat 2014: Cearstium fontanum for validation:: NS March 07 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5).
This chickweed was shot from a nursery in Panipat…
perhaps an introduced wild species, confined only to places where plants brought from other places are kept…
Please help to get exact id..
I took this as Cerastium fontanum based on earlier discussions..
please validate/correct the id.. very close looking species is Cerastium glomeratum.. Yes … It is clearly C. glomeratum on two counts. Thanks a lot Sir, for such a quick and descriptive reply…
Cerastium glomeratum :: Kemmangundi Road :: 13 NOV 2016 :: DVDEC41 : 4 posts by 3 authors. 3 images.
Kemmangundi Road Karnataka
Date: 13 NOV 2016 … Altitude: ~ 1021 – 1369 m (3349 – 4491 ft) asl
Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. … (family: Caryophyllaceae) Very nice images … I thought this plant to be a Stellaria sp. Thanks … for appreciation, and for liking all posts.          Caryophyllaceae Week: Cerastium for Id from Panipat:
This time Cerastium sp. only…this was shot from a nursery…probably was introduced from some other place, from where the nursery men bring their plants….for comparison I have included two pictures of joint shots of Stellaria media and this species of Cerastium….Please help in id.. Cerastium fontanum I think it will be Cerastium glomeratum as per discussions at Confusion between Cerastium fontanum subsp. vulgare and Cerastium glomeratum Yes C. glomeratum
Caryophyllaceae Week: Cerastium fontanum subsp. fontanum from Kashmir:
Cerastium fontanum Baum., Enum. Stirp. Transsilv. 1: 425. 1816. Decumbent or erect annual herb ovate-lanceolate to oblong leaves, 1-3 cm long, hairy on both suraces; flowers white in spreading dichasial cymes, pedicel longer than sepals, recurved in fruit; sepals 5-6 mm long with membranous margin; petals obovate-oblong, slightly longer to almost 1.5 times as long as sepals, bilobed at tip; styles 5; capsule nearly twice as long a sepals, with 10 recurved teeth.
A very common species at lower as well as higher altitudes in Kashmir.
I think it will be Cerastium glomeratum as per discussions at Confusion between Cerastium fontanum subsp. vulgare and Cerastium glomeratum and Id request for this species of Arenaria Yes C. glomeratum        Cerastium fontanum ABMAR01/07 : 5 posts by 3 authors. 7 images.
Cearstium (ser-ASS-tium) comes from Greek keras, a horn, and refers to the horned shape of the seed capsule. The flowers are very similar to Stellaria (Latin Stella: a star) in shape, colour and size. The leaves are stalk less and tear-shaped with more downy hair. The brown papery capsules are translucent. Sepals are shorter than the petals.
Cerastium fontanum—Mouse-ear Chickweed
Mcleodganj and above, 1750m
03-04 March 2016 nice chickweed with five stigma. (stelllaria has three). nice comparison between these two. love it Marvellous!!! I think it will be Cerastium glomeratum as per images and details herein and as per discussions at Id request for this species of Arenaria On further consideration, it appears close to Cerastium holosteoides as per POWO (syn: Cerastium fontanum subsp. vulgare (Hartman) Greuter & Burdet of Flora of China) On further consideration, I think it will be Cerastium glomeratum as per discussions at Confusion between Cerastium fontanum subsp. vulgare and Cerastium glomeratum C. glomeratum if we follow POWO   stellaria again…:
There was a post yesterday about stellaria.. (could not find it again today).. anyway I just wanted to confirm if these two are also stellarias (media/graminea or what??).. Again from my area of Dalhousie,HP, Alt 2300mts – Here’s a photo of the leaves.. – This is Cerastium fontanum (syn: C. vulgatum) I think it will be Cerastium glomeratum as per images and details herein and as per discussions at Id request for this species of Arenaria On further consideration, it appears close to Cerastium holosteoides as per POWO On further consideration, I think it will be Cerastium glomeratum as per discussions at Confusion between Cerastium fontanum subsp. vulgare and Cerastium glomeratum
SK475 03 APR-2017:ID : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (11)
Location: Nagarkot, Nepal Date : 31 March 2017
Altitude : 6500 ft.
Which Stellaria ??? Cerastium fontanum ?
Thank you Sir ! Cerastium fontanum Baumg. (accepted name). No Nepali Name ! I think it will be Cerastium glomeratum as per discussions at Confusion between Cerastium fontanum subsp. vulgare and Cerastium glomeratum and Id request for this species of Arenaria
we saw this at Duggalbitta Uttarakhand
at an altitude of about 7,800 feet
in the first week of may 2018
very nice. now i want to know what are those lager leaves? in the left lower corner. I suspect it is Fragaria nubicola Common Mouse-ear chickweed; I think it will be Cerastium glomeratum as per discussions at Confusion between Cerastium fontanum subsp. vulgare and Cerastium glomeratum and Id request for this species of Arenaria
. Cerastium fontanum in FOI: Yes, it is very much Cerastium glomeratum. . Cerastium glomeratum- Hunder, Nubra, Ladakh: 17 images-5 high res. POWO, GBIF and CoL has its mention for this area. . SK 3588 27 July 2022: 6 very high res. images- 3 HEIC Location: Chandragiri, Kathmandu, Nepal
Altitude: 2400 m.
Date: 19 July 2022
Habit : Wild Looks like Stellaria… Why some .heic images? May be due to mobile shot as my camera betrayed. Yes, appears close to images at Cerastium glomeratum Thuill.
. References: POWO The Plant List Ver.1.1 GRIN Flowers of India India Biodiversity Portal Wikipedia Calflora: Cerastium glomeratum Cerastium glomeratum Missouri Plants |
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