Cerastium aleuticum
| Aleutian mouse-ear chickweed | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Genus: | Cerastium |
| Species: | C. aleuticum
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| Binomial name | |
| Cerastium aleuticum | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cerastium beeringianum var. aleuticum (Hultén) S.L. Welsh | |
Cerastium aleuticum, common name Aleutian mouse-ear chickweed, is a plant species endemic to the US State of Alaska. It is found only on islands, not on the Alaskan mainland: Aleutian, St. Lawrence, St. Paul, Popof, and Kodiak Islands. It is found on rocky slopes and mountainsides up to an elevation of 700 m.[2]
Cerastium aleuticum is a perennial herb spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Stems are branched, up to 7 cm long, covered with soft hairs. Flowers are single or in groups of 2 or 3, white. Capsules are cylindrical, up to 11 mm long. [2][3][4][5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ The Plant List
- ^ a b Flora of North America v 5
- ^ Hultén, Oskar Eric Gunnar. 1936. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 30(3): 520–521, f. 3a–b.
- ^ Hultén, E. 1968. Flora of Alaska i–xxi, 1–1008. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- ^ Welsh, S. L. 1974. Anderson's Flora of Alaska and Adjacent Parts of Canada i–xvi, 1–724. Brigham Young University Press, Provo.
- ^ Welsh, Stanley Larson. 1968. Great Basin Naturalist 28(3): 148.