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| image = Illustration Cerastium arvense0.jpg
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| image_caption = Cerastium arvense
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| divisio = Magnoliophyta
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| familia = Caryophyllaceae
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| genus = Cerastium
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Cerastium (Greek for horn, alluding to the shape of the pod). Caryophyllaceae. Mouse-ear Chick-Weed. Decumbent annuals or perennials, used in rockeries or for bedding and borders.
 
Cerastium (Greek for horn, alluding to the shape of the pod). Caryophyllaceae. Mouse-ear Chick-Weed. Decumbent annuals or perennials, used in rockeries or for bedding and borders.
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Pubescent or hirsute herbs, rarely glaucous: lvs. small, opposite, entire: fls. white, borne in terminal, dichotomous cymes; sepals 5, rarely 4; petals as many, emarginate or 2-cleft; stamens 10, rarely fewer; styles 5, rarely 4 or 3, opposite the sepals: caps, cylindric, often curved, dehiscing at the top by 10, rarely 8, teeth.—About 100 species of world-wide distribution according to the largest delimitation of the genus; by some authorities reduced to 40 or 50 species.
 
Pubescent or hirsute herbs, rarely glaucous: lvs. small, opposite, entire: fls. white, borne in terminal, dichotomous cymes; sepals 5, rarely 4; petals as many, emarginate or 2-cleft; stamens 10, rarely fewer; styles 5, rarely 4 or 3, opposite the sepals: caps, cylindric, often curved, dehiscing at the top by 10, rarely 8, teeth.—About 100 species of world-wide distribution according to the largest delimitation of the genus; by some authorities reduced to 40 or 50 species.
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Cerastiums are of easy culture in ordinary garden soil. They are propagated by divisions or by cuttings taken after flowering and planted in a shady place. They are more or less used for edgings and in rockeries.
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Cerastiums are of easy culture in ordinary garden soil. They are propagated by divisions or by cuttings taken after flowering and planted in a shady place. They are more or less used for edgings and in rockeries.{{SCH}}
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==Cultivation==
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==Species==
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| name = ''Cerastium''
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| image = Illustration Cerastium arvense0.jpg
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| image_caption = ''Cerastium arvense''
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| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
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| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
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| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
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| ordo = [[Caryophyllales]]
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| familia = [[Caryophyllaceae]]
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| genus = '''''Cerastium'''''
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| genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
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''[[Cerastium arcticum]]''<br>
 
''[[Cerastium arcticum]]''<br>
 
''[[Cerastium arvense]]''<br>
 
''[[Cerastium arvense]]''<br>
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''[[Cerastium nigrescens]]''<br>
 
''[[Cerastium nigrescens]]''<br>
 
''[[Cerastium tomentosum]]'' (snow-in-summer)<br>
 
''[[Cerastium tomentosum]]'' (snow-in-summer)<br>
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'''''Cerastium''''' (Mouse-ear chickweed) is a [[genus]] of [[plant]] belonging to the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Caryophyllaceae]].
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''Cerastium'' species are used as food plants by the [[larva]]e of some [[Lepidoptera]] species including ''[[Coleophora|Coleophora chalcogrammella]]'' (which feeds exclusively on ''Cerastium arvense'') and ''[[Coleophora|Coleophora striatipennella]]'' (which has been recorded on ''Cerastium fontanum'').
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
    
==External links==
 
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*[http://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=profile&symbol=CERAS&display=63 USDA Plants Profile: ''Cerastium'']
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[[Image:Cerastium arvense.JPG|thumb|left|200px|''Cerastium arvense'']]
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