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Cerastium alpinum (alpine chickweed)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cerastium alpinum, commonly called alpine mouse-ear or alpine chickweed is a species of mat forming perennial plant. It is native from Greenland, Canada and northern Europe It is grown as a rock garden subject for its many small white flowers and silver haired stems and foliage. There are three subspecies.
View Wikipedia Record: Cerastium alpinum

Infraspecies

Cerastium alpinum alpinum (Alpine chickweed)
Cerastium alpinum lanatum
Cerastium alpinum var. nordhagenii
Cerastium alpinum var. piliferum
Cerastium alpinum var. robustum
Cerastium alpinum var. strigosum

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [1]  White
Height [2]  4.724 inches (.12 m)
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [4]  Herb
Light Preference [3]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [3]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [3]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist

Protected Areas

Predators

Chen caerulescens (Snow Goose)[5]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Eupeodes luniger[5]
Limnophyes ninae[5]
Rhamphomyia lamelliseta[6]
Spilogona projecta[7]
Spilogona sanctipauli[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Peronospora conferta[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2PLANTATT - 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)
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 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.
♦ 6Insect-flower associations in the high Arctic with special reference to nectar., Hocking, B. 1968. Oikos 19:359-388
♦ 7Mosquin, T., and J. E. H. Martin. 1967. Observations on the pollination biology of plants on Melville Island, N.W.T., Canada. Canadian Field Naturalist 81:201-205.
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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