Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
Genus species | Cerastium bialynickii Tolm. |
Bibliography | Trudy Bot. Muz. 21: 81 (1927) |
Native Range | Subarctic |
Primary Biome | Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Description | long hirsute, leaves oblong-elliptic, 5-12mm, subobtuse, flowers 1-5, terminal, bracts herbaceous, lanceolate, acute, sepals lanceolate, 5-7mm long, petals bilobate |
Size | 2-15cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
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 cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Cerastium arcticum var. sordidum Hultén Cerastium beeringianum ssp. bialynickii (Tolm.) Tolm. Cerastium mutabile var. bialynickii (Tolm.) Kozhevn. |
Territory | 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (SVA Svalbard) 3 Asia-Temperate 31 Russian Far East (MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories) |