| Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
| Genus species | Cerastium alpinum L. |
| Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 438 (1753) |
| Native Range | Europe to nw. Siberia, c. Canada to Greenland |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| 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 | subshrub |
| Cultivation | mesic, slightly humous, sunny site alpine house, moist, rich, drained soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Alsine alpina (L.) E.H.L.Krause Cerastium acutifolium Dufour Cerastium alpinum var. aquaticum Boiss. Cerastium alpinum ssp. aquaticum (Boiss.) Mart.Parras & Molero Cerastium alpinum var. atratum (Lapeyr.) Nyman Cerastium alpinum var. babiogorense Zapal. Cerastium alpinum var. glabrum Retz. Cerastium alpinum var. glanduliferum W.D.J.Koch Cerastium alpinum var. hirsutum Gren. Cerastium alpinum var. nudipes Fenzl. Cerastium alpinum f. pulvinata Simmons Cerastium alpinum var. sordidum Hultén Cerastium alpinum var. vestitum Hultén Cerastium alpinum var. viscidum Amo Cerastium atratum Lapeyr. Cerastium bombycinum Schur Cerastium hirsutum Fisch. ex Ser. Cerastium lanatum var. thomasianum Ser. Cerastium laniferum Schur Cerastium lanuginosum Willd. ex Rchb. Cerastium latifolium Edmonston Cerastium microphyllum Schur Cerastium rotundifolium Schur Cerastium saxatile Turcz. Cerastium sibiricum Steven ex Ledeb. Cerastium x tatrense Zapal. Cerastium viscosissimum Schur Stellaria alpina (L.) S.F.Gray |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, GRB Great Britain, ICE Iceland, NOR Norway, SVA Svalbard, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, CZE Czechoslovakia, GER Germany, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (FRA France, SPA Spain) 13 Southeastern Europe (ALB Albania, BUL Bulgaria, ITA Italy, ROM Romania, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (BLR Belarus, BLT Baltic States, RUN North European Russia, RUW Northwest European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (WSB West Siberia) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories) 71 Western Canada (MAN Manitoba, SAS Saskatchewan) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, NFL Newfoundland, ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) |
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