Cerastium Tourn. ex L.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amur, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burundi, Buryatiya, California, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central European Russia, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, DR Congo, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Finland, France, Free State, Føroyar, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Louisiana, Madagascar, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russia, Northern Provinces, Northwest European Russia, Northwest Territories, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, NW. Balkan Pen., Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Qinghai, Québec, Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Sulawesi, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Türkey, Türkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Yemen, Yukon, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Amsterdam-St.Paul Is., Antipodean Is., Ascension, Bermuda, Chatham Is., Crozet Is., Dominican Republic, Easter Is., Florida, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Juan Fernández Is., Kerguelen, Kermadec Is., Macquarie Is., Marion-Prince Edward Is., Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., New Caledonia, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Norfolk Is., Pitcairn Is., Rhode I., Somalia, South Georgia, St.Helena, Tasmania, Tristan da Cunha, Tubuai Is.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

Flora of Iraq

• F.N. Williams, Critical Notes on Some Species of Cerastium, J. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 37: 116–124; 209–216; 310–315; 474–477 (1899)
• L. Gen. Pl. ed, 5: 199 (1753)
• L. Spec. Pl. 437 (1753)
• S. Murbeck (1898) Studier Öfver Kritikse Kärläxtformer III. De Nordeuropeiske Formerna Af Slägtet Cerastium, Botaniska Notiser 1898: 241–268.
• W. Möschl (1966) De Cerastis Florae Iranicae, Sitzungsberichte der Österrechischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Math.-Naturw. Klasse 175: 159–216.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• —F.T.A. 1: 140.

Flora Zambesiaca

• Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 199 (1754).
• Sp. Pl. 1: 437 (1753)

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. G. Gilbert [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5, 199 (1754)
• Sp. Pl. 437 (1753)