| Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
| Genus species | Cerastium alpinum L. |
| Synonyms | Cerastium acutifolium Dufour |
| Cerastium bombycinum Schur | |
| Cerastium laniferum Schur | |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | 0-3400m |
| Description | hirsute or loosely lanate, leaves in rosette, elliptic, flowers few, sepals elliptic-lanceolate, narrowly scarious, petals glabrous, bifid |
| Size | 5-10cm |
| Color | white |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | + |
| Type | carpet |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in early spring; cuttings in late summer |
| Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Northern Europe (Finland , Great Britain , Iceland , Norway , Svalbard , Sweden ) Middle Europe (Austria , Czechoslovakia , Germany , Poland , Switzerland ) Southwestern Europe (France , Spain ) Southeastern Europe (Albania , Bulgaria , Italy , Romania , Yugoslavia ) Eastern Europe (Belarus , Baltic States , North European Russia , Northwest European Russia ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (West Siberia ) Northern America Subarctic America (Greenland , Nunavut , Northwest Territories ) Western Canada (Manitoba , Saskatchewan ) Eastern Canada (Labrador , Newfoundland , Ontario , Québec) |
| Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
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| Comments | CARYOPHYLLACEAE
alpinum lanatum (Lam.) Ces., Not. Nat. Civ. Lombardia [C. Cattaneo] 290 (1844)
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