Cerastium glomeratum Thuill., 1799

Common names

🇬🇧 Sticky Mouse-ear
🇫🇷 Céraiste aggloméré, Oreille de souris

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Superasterids
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Tribe: Alsineae
Genus: Cerastium
Species: Cerastium glomeratum

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with C. holosteoides Fr., 1817, which has a prostrate habit and inflorescences that bear few, spaced flowers, while C. glomeratum has a more upright habit and inflorescences that bear many, tightly packed flowers.

Photographs

img/cerastium-glomeratum.webp — *Cerastium glomeratum*

img/cerastium-glomeratum-2.webp — *Cerastium glomeratum*

img/cerastium-glomeratum-3.webp — *Cerastium glomeratum*

Sources

Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 632). Biotope.