Vascular Plant Herbarium

Vascular Plant Database Genus Results

Category: Dicots
Family Name: Caryophyllaceae

Cerastium - [maps | photos]

• Cerastium brachypetalum * Pers.
  Common Name: gray chickweed

• Cerastium diffusum * Pers.
  Common Name: fourstamen chickweed
  Synonyms:
  

         • Cerastium tetrandrum W. Curtis

• Cerastium dubium * (Bast.) Guépin
  Common Name: doubtful chickweed

• Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. vulgare * (Hartman) Greuter & Burdet
  NWI TN: Facultative -
  Common Name: big chickweed
  Synonyms:
  

         • Cerastium vulgatum L.

         • Cerastium vulgare Hartman

         • Cerastium fontanum Baumg. ssp. trivale (Link) Jalas

• Cerastium glomeratum * Thuill.
  NWI TN: Facultative Upland -
  Common Name: mouse-ear chickweed
  Synonyms:
  

         • Cerastium viscosum auct. non L.

         • Cerastium viscosum auct. non L.

• Cerastium nutans Raf. var. brachypodum Engelm. ex A. Gray
  Common Name: shortstalk chickweed
  Synonyms:
  

         • Cerastium brachypodum (Engelm. ex Gray) B.L. Robins.

• Cerastium nutans Raf. var. nutans
  NWI TN: Facultative -
  Common Name: nodding chickweed

• Cerastium pumilum * W. Curtis
  Common Name: European chickweed

• Cerastium semidecandrum * L.
  Common Name: fivestamen chickweed

• Cerastium velutinum Raf. (TN Endangered)
  Common Name: field chickweed

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*Non-native taxon known to be naturalized in Tennessee

All names & statuses follow the Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee (2015).
Click here for a description of rare, threatened, or endangered (RTE) status & National Wetland Indicator (NWI) status.

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