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Bayer Code : cergl

Scientific name: Cerastium glomeratum Thuillier

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Caryophyllaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: sticky mouse-ear

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Knäuel-Hornkraut ; ES : lapilla ; FR : ceraiste aggloméré ; IT : peverina dei campi ; PT : orelha-de-rato-roxas ; EN : sticky mouse-ear ; NL : kluwenhoombloem ;

Biological type: Annual

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Seedling snapshotSeedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons spoon shaped.

- Entire leaves, elliptical to ovate, with entire margin.

Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 5-30 cm. Very hairy.

- Stem erect.

- Lower leaves in rosette, yellow green, covered by hairs. Opposed leaves, ovate to elliptical, sessile or shortly petiolate.

- Flowers white compact, small, agglomerate in compact cyme ; hairy sepals ; petal deeply indented, about same size as sepal.

- Fruits : erect cylindrical capsules.

- - Risk of confusion with: Cerastium semidecandrum L.

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Cerastium semidecandrum

Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Present     Germany  Rare     Spain  Present     France  Present     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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