Cerastium aleuticum

Aleutian mouse-ear chickweed
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Caryophyllaceae
Genus:	Cerastium
Species:	C. aleuticum
Binomial name
	Cerastium aleuticum; Hultén
Synonyms
	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

^ 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.

[1] The Plant List

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[3] Hultén, Oskar Eric Gunnar. 1936. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 30(3): 520–521, f. 3a–b.

[4] Hultén, E. 1968. Flora of Alaska i–xxi, 1–1008. Stanford University Press, Stanford.

[5] Welsh, S. L. 1974. Anderson's Flora of Alaska and Adjacent Parts of Canada i–xvi, 1–724. Brigham Young University Press, Provo.

[6] Welsh, Stanley Larson. 1968. Great Basin Naturalist 28(3): 148.

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