| Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
| Genus species | Dichodon cerastoides (L.) Rchb. |
| Bibliography | Icon. Fl. Germ. Helv. 5: t. 4915 (1841) |
| Native Range | Temp. Eurasia, e. Canada to Greenland |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | 0-5100m |
| Description | leaves linear-lanceolate, 8-20mm, acuminate, flowers 3-7 in cyme, bracts leaf-like, lanceolate, pedicels glandular pubescent, petals obovate, 8-12mm long, incised to 1/4 |
| Size | 5-15cm |
| Color | white |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | - |
| Type | perennial |
| 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 |
| Synonyms | Alsine multicalis (Willd.) E.H.L.Krause Arenaria argaea (Boiss. & Balansa) Shinners Arenaria trigyna (Vill.) Shinners Centunculus alpinus Scop. Cerastium argaeum Boiss. & Balansa Cerastium cerastoides (L.) Britton Cerastium cerastoides var. eglandulosum Maire Cerastium cerastoides var. foliosum Kozhevn. Cerastium cerastoides f. glandulosum Micevski Cerastium cerastoides var. lalesarense Bornm. Cerastium cerastoides var. lanceolatocalyx Hazit Cerastium cerastoides var. subglaberrimum Norman Cerastium elegans Fisch. ex Ser. Cerastium lagascanum C.Vicioso Cerastium lapponicum Crantz Cerastium nivale D.Don ex Nyman Cerastium obtusifolium Kar. & Kir. Cerastium refractum All. Cerastium rupestre Fisch. ex Ser. Cerastium stellarioides Hartm. Cerastium trigynum Vill. Cerastium trigynum var. brachypetalum Lange Cerastium trigynum f. tetragynum Bolzon Dichodon argaeum (Boiss. & Bal.) Ikonn. Provancheria cerastoides (L.) B.Boivin Stellaria caespitosa Dufour Stellaria cerastoides L. Stellaria cerastoides var. multicaulis (Willd.) Wahlenb. Stellaria elegans Ser. Stellaria glareosa Turcz. ex Steud. Stellaria multicaulis Willd. Stellaria radicans Lapeyr. |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, FOR Fřroyar, 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, GRC Greece, ITA Italy, ROM Romania, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia, RUW Northwest European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 33 Caucasus (NCS North Caucasus, TCS Transcaucasus) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan, IRN Iran, IRQ Iraq, LBS Lebanon-Syria, TUR Turkey) 36 China (CHM Manchuria, CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, NFL Newfoundland) |