Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Caryophyllales > Caryophyllaceae > Cerastium > Cerastium arcticumCerastium arcticum (Arctic mouse-ear chickweed)Synonyms: Cerastium alpinum procerum; Cerastium alpinum uniflorum; Cerastium alpinum var. edmondstonii; Cerastium alpinum var. procerum; Cerastium alpinum var. uniflorum; Cerastium arcticum edmondstonii; Cerastium arcticum f. nigrescens; Cerastium arcticum hyperboreum; Cerastium arcticum procerum; Cerastium arcticum var. nigrescens; Cerastium arcticum var. procerum; Cerastium arcticum var. vestitum; Cerastium arcticum vestitum; Cerastium edmondstonei var. caespitosum; Cerastium edmondstonei var. nigrescens; Cerastium edmondstonii; Cerastium edmondstonii var. caespitosum; Cerastium edmondstonii var. nigrescens; Cerastium hyperboreum; Cerastium latifolium (heterotypic); Cerastium latifolium var. edmondstonii; Cerastium latifolium var. nigrescens (homotypic); Cerastium nigrescens (heterotypic); Cerastium nigrescens arcticum (homotypic) Cerastium arcticum (Arctic mouse-ear chickweed or Arctic mouse-ear) is a flower distributed at parts of western and southern Greenland, Baffin Island, Labrador, Iceland, Scotland, Norway and Svalbard. It grows in tufts, sometimes loosely, generally in damp places and on open gravel. Most of the plant is pubescent, the hairs appearing stiff. Leaves are elliptical. The flowers are white, rather large, beautiful when fully expanded, single or two together. Petals deeply notched and considerably longer than sepals. \n* close up \n* stem |
Height [1] | 4.724 inches (.12 m) | | Lifespan [1] | Perennial | Structure [3] | Herb | | Light Preference [2] | Mostly Sunny | Soil Acidity [2] | Mostly Acid | Soil Fertility [2] | Infertile | Soil Moisture [2] | Moist |
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Aulavik National Park |
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3021211 |
Northwest Territories, Canada |
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Beinn Dearg |
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34221 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Ben Alder and Aonach Beag |
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16453 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Ben Lawers |
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12423 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Ben Nevis |
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23023 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Caenlochan |
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12860 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Cairngorms |
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142543 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Creag Meagaidh |
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15184 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Eryri/ Snowdonia |
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48773 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Foinaven |
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36684 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Glen Coe |
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7329 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Loch Maree Complex |
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38882 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Quttinirpaaq (Ellesmere Island) National Park Reserve |
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9436606 |
Nunavut, Canada |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004) ♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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